Screen 1: Sample Integrated Writing Task Test Question Screen
How do I use the Writing sections?
In the Writing section of the test you will demonstrate your ability to communicate in writing in an academic environment. There are two different writing tasks. You may take notes and use your notes while writing your essay.
Writing Question Types
Integrated Writing Task
For the first writing task, you will first read a passage and listen to a lecture. You will then write about how the ideas in the reading passage and listening passage are related.
Screen 1: Sample Integrated Writing Task Test Question Screen
Independent Writing Tasks
For the second writing task, you will answer a question based on your own knowledge and experience of a general topic.
Screen 2: Sample Independent Writing Task Question Screen
Writing Skills
The Writing Skills section offers a variety of ways to improve performance in the writing section of the test.
Sample Notes
In the Writing section of the test you are allowed to take notes and use the notes while writing your essay. In the Writing Skills section of this program, you will practice taking notes for both Integrated and Independent Tasks. You will take notes while reading a passage, listening to a passage, or preparing your answer to an independent task question. You can then compare your notes with sample notes provided in the program.
Screen 3: Writing Skills Reading Passage Sample Notes
Sample Essays
You will also see a sample essay answering the question. You can see how your notes and the sample notes contribute to a well-formed essay.
Screen 4: Writing Skills Sample Essay and Sample Notes
Identifying characteristics of a well-written essay
One of the practice activities in the Skills section asks you to identify characteristics of a well-written essay. You will see a sample essay accompanied by various types of questions. Read the essay, and follow the directions for each question type.
One practice set has four different question types. These questions ask you to:
1. Click on a word or a group of words in the essay question or in the essay itself.
2. Click on a sentence in the paragraph marked with an arrow.
3. Click on one of the paragraphs in the essay.
4. Click on a multiple-choice answer.
Follow the directions 
for each question to understand how to do the question type. The example in Screen 1 below shows question type 2.
You can check your answers and get explanations by clicking on Check 
and Explain 
.
Screen 5: Sample Writing Skills Click Question
Error Correction
In some activities, you will practice correcting errors in an essay. For this type of question, you will click on all of the errors in a specific paragraph. The Directions 
will tell you how many errors to find. You can read why a word or group of words is incorrect when you click on Explain 
.
Screen 6: Sample Writing Skills Error Correction Activity
Writing Mini-Tests and Complete Tests
In the Writing Mini-Test you will write a response to one question. In the Writing Complete Test you will write a response to two questions.
You will have 20 minutes to write an integrated response based on information from a reading passage and a listening passage. You will have 30 minutes to complete an independent essay.
Type your essay on the right side of the screen.
To edit your essay, use the buttons at the top of the writing screen: Copy 
, Cut 
, and Paste 
.
Click on Cut to delete text. First highlight the text. Then click on Cut.
Click on Paste to move text you copied or cut to a different place in the essay. Highlight the text. Click on Copy or Cut . Put your cursor in the place you want the text. Click on Paste.
Word Count 
shows how many words you have typed.
If you finish early and there is a printer connected to your computer, you can click on Print 
to print your essay.
Your essay is saved automatically; you can find it in Results. You can also print the essay later from the Results screen.
Screen 7: Sample Independent Task Essay Test Screen
Self-Assessment Checklist
The computer cannot score your essay, but you can complete a Self-Assessment Checklist to evaluate your essay at the end of the test.
Click in the Yes or No column 
for each statement in the Self-Assessment Checklist. Your assessment will appear in the Skill Report. You must click on each checklist statement box before you can leave this section.
Click on Sample Answer 
to compare your essay to a sample essay.
Click on Sample Notes 
to see sample notes for the question or for the Reading and Listening passages in Integrated Tasks.
Click on View Text 
to review the reading passage in Integrated Tasks.
Click on Listen and View Script 
to review the listening passage in Integrated Tasks.
Click on Print 
to print your essay.
Click on Next 
to access the next essay or to leave this section.
Screen 8: Sample Writing Mini-Test Self-Assessment Checklist