<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I am preparing for my next week's WSA. I would like to hear from people who have ever taken a WSA. How was your experience like? More specifically, what kind of prompt you guys had for both persuasion and position task? </p>
<p>I would really appreciate if you could share your experience and prompts! It would be really helpful for all of us who are planning to take this test.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading!</p>
<p>I thought it was fine. I took it in September and was accepted to Foster in the UAG for Winter 2012. I forgot the prompts, sorry. I didn’t think it was too difficult, though. It’s primarily based on your thought processes and the way you explain those processes in your essays.</p>
<p>sgnore, when are you taking it exactly? Mine is on next Saturday.</p>
<p>seatac, mine is on March 31st. Does next Saturday means March 31st as well?</p>
<p>KayleyFC, the sample essays for both tasks do not seem very hard but since there are not a lot of prompts for practicing, it becomes kind of unpredictable.
btw congrats for your admission to Foster! It’s my dream to get into Foster! Hopefully, I’ll do well on the WSA as it seems to be the only hurdle left for me.</p>
<p>Yes, the 31 :)</p>
<p>I asked the director of the writing center at my college to help me out and give me several similar topics to practice… I guess it helped me quite a bit.</p>
<p>Seatac, do you mind sharing those topics? It’d help me a lot! </p>
<p>I actually attended the application workshop today, and the adviser was emphasizing a lot on grammar, analysis, and organization. The “grammar” part was somewhat surprising because at the WSA workshop, the instructor appeared less worried in terms of grammar and more about analysis and organization.</p>
<p>Yeah, unfortunately all the papers are in the center, I don’t have any with me. The persuasion task’s topic is especially long. However, you can find many topics for position papers on the internet and practice them. </p>
<p>Do they still have these workshops? I thought that they are done with them since the end of February… I’m not a UW student though. </p>
<p>There is a scoring guide for the test - and grammar there is one of the flaws you can have that can bring down your score…</p>
<p>They are done with WSA workshops but still offering application workshops. I think there are couple more left (you can check on their website). It was helpful, so I would definitely recommend it.
btw which college are you transferring from?</p>
<p>Ooh, yeah! I should definitely attend one of those. Thanks for sharing this. (I completely forgot that they even exist…)</p>
<p>I’m from Shoreline CC.</p>
<p>Good luck on the WSA!</p>
<p>Thanks and Good luck to you too!</p>
Hi! I plan to write the WSA too. Any important things that I should know before writing it?
What are the few aspects that I should focus on while writing the essay?
Could you suggest some websites to practice the essays too?