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Instructions for Submitting a CBE Portfolio
Any student wishing to do a Credit By Exam needs to obtain the CBE form from The Office of Academic Affairs in Green Hall 212 or The Writing Program in Green Hall 109, complete the form with all the required signatures, pay at the Bursar's office, and then submit their portfolio to the Director of the Writing Program.
The portfolio to be submitted for Credit by Examination for WRI 102 Academic Writing should consist of the following:
1. A cover sheet. In addition to your name, student identification number, address, email address, and phone number, the cover sheet should list the pieces included in the portfolio. You must sign the cover sheet, and if possible ask the teacher(s) for whom you wrote the pieces of writing to sign as well.
2. A letter. In this third persuasive writing sample, you should explain how the two other pieces of writing selected for the portfolio meet the requirements stipulated below. In other words, the letter should demonstrate how each of the two pieces of writing either constitutes an argument or analyzes and assesses one.
3. Two pieces of persuasive writing. These should be responses to assignments that ask you either to analyze and assess an argument or to produce one of your own. At least one of these pieces of writing must be a researched argument with full scholarly apparatus (using either MLA or APA citation practices). The subject of each paper, and the course for which it was written, will not matter; what will matter is that the papers demonstrate either an awareness of the strengths and shortcomings of someone else's argument or the ability to construct persuasively an argument of your own. Papers with teacher's comments are welcome.
The portfolio should be in standard written English, and (excluding the cover sheet) should be not fewer than 8 nor more than 24 typed, double-spaced pages. The portfolio will be judged on the writer's ability to analyze and develop ideas, to think critically, to communicate clearly and effectively, and to document a researched argument with current academic citation practices.
