The PAE writing program is designed for matriculated undergraduate students whose writing has been evaluated by PAE professors and who have been placed into one of five levels in the writing program. These levels include WAE 190 Intermediate, WAE 192 High intermediate, and WAE 194 advanced academic writing, WRT 101 Introductory Writing Workshop, to WRT 102 Intermediate Writing Workshop. Each course must be taken and passed before advancing to the next level, and upon passing WRT 102, students will satisfy their writing requirements at Stony Brook.
Every student must demonstrate a certain level of writing proficiency to graduate from Stony Brook University by completing a writing sequence culminating in the WRT 102 Intermediate Writing Workshop. Depending on individual student preparation, students will enroll initially into writing courses in the Program in Academic English (WAE 190, WAE 192, WAE 194, WRT 101, WRT 102). Final placement is verified and adjusted as needed during the first week of classes. Details of the policy are below.
New freshmen and transfer students who have not transferred an equivalent course from another collegiate institution will be assigned to a writing course appropriate to their level of preparation based on the criteria discussed in detail below. If any one of the criteria below places you into WRT 102, then you are not required to complete the Writing Placement Diagnostic.
Students with an Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score of 580 or higher will be placed into WRT 102. Faculty from the Program in Academic English will review the writing placement diagnostic of students with a combined Evidence-Based Reading and Writing score below 580 to determine placement into the appropriate writing course.
Students with an English Language Arts score of 23 or higher will be placed into WRT 102. Faculty from the Program in Academic English will review the writing placement diagnostic of students with an English Language Arts score below 23 to determine placement into the appropriate writing course.
Students who have received AP scores in English Language/Composition or English Literature/Composition with a score of 3 or higher will be placed into WRT 102.
Transfer Course Equivalency
Students who have transfer college credit in English Composition from a regionally accredited institution with a grade of C or higher can determine transfer equivalency information by visiting Stony Brook's transfer equivalency page.