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English and Humanities
College Composition I
Writing Proficiency Test
Fall 2010
Form FL1O C
Time limit: 90 minutes
Read the attached article carefully, and then write an essay in
response to the
question below. Be sure that your essay reacts to the ideas
and/or evidence
presented in the article, but remember that you are explaining
your own point of
view, not the author’s
1$ online education as effective as in-classroom face-to-face
education?
Your essay should

• support a clear thesis statement
• be organized into well-developed paragraphs
• refer to the attached article at least once
► You may use a dictionary.
► Spend some time thinking about what you are going to
write before you begin
your composition. You may use scrap paper if you want. All
scrap paper and
examination materials must be handed in with your final
version.
► Do not worry about crossing out words or phrases, but be
sure that your essay is
legibly written in blue or black ink.
► Your instructor will tell you your score on this essay at
your scheduled class session
during final exam week. Scores are not given out over the
telephone. Any
arrangements for portfolio appeals must be made with your
instructor.

Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web
Trip Gabriel
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Like most other undergraduates,
Anish Patel likes to sleep in. Even
though his Principles of Microeconomics class at 9:35 a.m. is
just a five-minute stroll from his
dorm, he would rather flip open his laptop in his room to
watch the lecture, streamed live
over the campus network.
On a recent morning, as Mr. Patel’s two roommates slept with
covers pulled tightly over their
heads, he sat at his desk taking notes on Prof. Mark Rush’s
explanation of the term "perfect
competition.” A camera zoomed in for a close-up of the
blackboard, where Dr. Rush scribbled
in chalk, "lots of firms and lots of buyers.”
The curtains were drawn in the dorm room. The floor was
awash in the flotsam of three

freshmen — clothes, backpacks, homework, packages of
Chips Ahoy and Cap’n Crunch’s
Crunch Berries.
The University of Florida broadcasts and archives Dr. Rush’s
lectures less for the convenience
of sleepy students like Mr. Patel than for a simple principle
of economics: 1,500
undergraduates are enrolled and no lecture hall could
possibly hold them. Dozens of popular
courses in psychology, statistics, biology and other fields are
also offered primarily online.
Students on this scenic campus of stately oaks rarely meet
classmates in these courses.
Online education is best known for serving older,
nontraditional students who can not travel
to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same
technologies of "distance learning” are
now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,
especially public institutions hit