EWRAP stands for Electronic WRiting Assessment Portfolio. This portfolio is the best way to satisfy the Writing Proficiency Requirement. Only intermediate seminar students can participate. Your portfolio will be submitted via Canvas and should include 3-4 documents:
Required: A reflection letter
Required: A 1250+ word paper from your Intermediate Seminar
Required: A 750+ word paper from any UMB course (ENGL 102 recommended if you took the course at UMass Boston; a second paper from your Intermediate Seminar is also OK)
Optional: Another 750+ word paper from any UMB course (preferably from a different discipline than the other two papers)*
*Note: We strongly recommend that you submit 3 course papers when possible as this gives the graders multiple examples of your writing and academic growth.
However, we understand you may be a first-semester transfer student, high-credit transfer student in the sciences, or have other reasons why submitting 3 papers is not feasible; for this reason, submission of a 3rd course paper is optional.
Before selecting papers for your portfolio, it’s important to know how your writing will be evaluated. Since the criteria used to evaluate your work in your classes may differ from the EWRAP scoring criteria, you are not advised to simply choose the papers that earned the best grades. Click on the button below to learn more about how your portfolio will be evaluated.