writing sample
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwritingandsample
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writing
noun
uk/ˈraɪ.tɪŋ/us/ˈraɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
a person's style of writing with a pen on paper that can be recognized as ...
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sample
noun[C]
uk/ˈsɑːm.pəl/us/ˈsæm.pəl/
a small amount of something that shows you what the rest is or should ...
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(Definition ofwritingandsamplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Applicants present, among other items, a rsum, 2-3 page personal philosophical statement, and a 5-10 page academicwritingsample.
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Selective admission is based on prior academic achievement, standardized test scores, awritingsample, and a personal interview.
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Academic standing, conduct, disciplinary record, attendance and awritingsampleare all carefully studied in this decision.
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Applicants are asked to submit short essays, one longer essay, awritingsample, current transcript and letters of recommendation.
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The most noticeable change to the series was the addition of awritingsample, or essay.
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Features of individual handwriting could be seen clearly in the mirror images of the mirror writing samples.
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This requires an in-depth application,writingsample, interview, and references.
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Though the test was still divided into four subtests, they were renamed as the verbal reasoning, biological sciences, physical sciences, andwritingsamplesections.
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Students wishing to join the editorial staff first gain experience as contributing staff members and, in the spring, submit an application andwritingsample.
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Thewritingsampleis presented in the form of a decision prompt, which provides the examinee with a problem and two criteria for making a decision.
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The reading and writing samples are similar for each par ticipant even though their uses of literacy outside of the study are quite different.
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Of the 82 relative clauses that showed up in her writing samples, 65 (79%) involved subject relatives.
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The students' writing samples will be discussed using an analytic rubric developed for the project.
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Between the quality of the handwriting and of the digital image, some admissions officers regard the readability and usefulness of thewritingsampleto be marginal.
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Writing samples from nonnative speakers reveal characteristic patterns of omissions of articles, confusions of gender, and the dropping of pronouns that suggest this to be true.
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This list is in addition to a section on verbal reasoning items, and two writing samples.
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It dealt with a man who runs a correspondence course and consists of lessons he mails to his students and the writing samples they send back.
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