Directed Self-Placement Survey
The Directed Self-Placement Survey will be open from May 19 through June 6, 2025.
The First Year Seminar, which all incoming students take in the first year, builds writing and research skills but requires a certain level of writing readiness for success. So that each incoming student can determine their readiness, all incoming students will complete and submit the Directed Self-Placement Survey. Each student will be placed into a Directed Self-Placement space in Canvas (canvas.tcnj.edu) and will be able to access the survey there. Students will be notified through a course invitation email from notifications@instructure.com, alerting them that they now have access to the Canvas Directed Self-Placement space.
Each of you will assess your own readiness for the course and will have the opportunity to enroll in First Year Writing Studio (FYW 101), a two-credit course that you will take concurrently with the FYS. FYW Studio is a course that supports you in TCNJ’s writing-intensive curriculum. In this course, we work together on drafts for the writing assignments you are given in your FYS so that by the time the essay is due, you will have written multiple drafts. The material for the course comes mainly from the writing assignments for your FYS and, on occasion, from your Writing Studio instructor. The course meets once a week as a class, students meet once a week with a tutor, and meet every other week for an individual consultation with the Studio instructor.
Your answers on the survey will help us see if you would like to place yourself into FYW Studio (FYW 101). We are confident the Studio course will provide you the support you might need or want for the writing assignments in the FYS. Once we receive results, we will invite those who would like to enroll in the course to submit a writing sample. This sample will help us assess your choice to enroll in FYW Studio.
Be sure to complete the survey before 11:59 pm on June 13, 2025.