As an online doctoral student, you often represent yourself and your academic work in writing.
By completing this writing assessment, online doctoral students can build strong academic writing habits targeted to their individual strengths and needs early in their studies at Walden.
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You will receive your assessment score in an email one week after the DRWA Doctoral Writing Assessment course ends. Your score email will indicate if you tested out of any of the required writing courses and your next steps if you did not test out of those courses. Any required writing courses are free on the first attempt. Walden’s Writing Assessment team will automatically register you for your required writing course, alongside program courses, in the term following your DRWA course.
You have tested out of Graduate Writing I and Graduate Writing II by demonstrating competency in the following writing skills:
If you'd like to further develop your writing skills, consider taking Graduate Writing III: Advanced Composition Skills.
Learn about Graduate Writing III
If you'd like to take Graduate Writing III, please contact writingassessment@mail.waldenu.edu to register for the free course.
You have tested out of Graduate Writing I by demonstrating the following writing skills:
You will need to complete Graduate Writing II, which is a free course that will help you develop scholarly writing skills such as paraphrasing and evaluating main ideas.
You will be enrolled in this course in the following term.
Learn about Graduate Writing II: Intermediate Composition
You need to complete both required writing courses, Graduate Writing I and Graduate Writing II as listed on your Program Progress Guide.
You will be enrolled in the first required writing course in the following term. In these courses, you practice and develop scholarly writing skills such as critical reading, summarizing, paraphrasing, and evaluating main ideas.
Learn about Graduate Writing I: Basic Composition
You received a score of 0 because you did not submit an assessment for review or there was evidence of plagiarism in your essay. Your score email will indicate if no essay was submitted or if plagiarism was present in your essay.
You need to complete both required writing courses, Graduate Writing I and Graduate Writing II, as listed on your Program Progress Guide.
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If you have questions about your writing assessment or your writing course, please contact us at writingassessment@mail.waldenu.edu. We are here for you and happy to help!
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