Connecting Parts I and II of the Language Arts Writing Test

The Language Arts Writing Test Part I asks students to demonstrate important writing skills - organization, sentence structure, usage, and mechanics - by revising and editing existing passages. In Part II, students show that they can generate writing on their own, using many of the same skills as in Part I.

For example, one of the content areas for Part I is organization - unity, transitions, text divisions, etc. In Part I, students will revise the organization of the passages. In Part II, they will organize their own essays, using some of the same skills to make their writing effective.