Previous UDWPA Texts and Questions

Looking over recent UDWPA assessment texts and the actual questions asked on recent exams can give you a sense of what to expect as you prepare for the UDWPA.

• 2013 April: "Quality Time, Redefined" by Alex Williams (doc)
• 2013 March: "Of Man and the Steam of Time" Rachel Carson (doc)
• 2013 February: "The Busy Trap" by Tim Kreider (doc)
• 2012 October: "Collegiate Life: An Obituary" Levine and Cureton (doc)
• 2012 September: "Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land" Donella Meadows (doc)
• 2010 April: "'Speech Codes' On The Campus and Problems of Free Speech" by Nat Hentoff (pdf)
• 2010 June: "Can You Be Educated From a Distance?" by James Barszcz (doc)
• 2010 September: "Workers of the Word, Relax" by Alain de Botton
• 2010 October: "Multi-Tasking Man" by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (pdf)
• 2011 February: "Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff (doc)
• 2011 March: "Stone Soup" by Barbara Kingsolver (doc)
• 2011 April: "The Argument Culture" by Deborah Tannen (doc)
• 2011 June: "How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading" by John Holt (doc)
• 2011 September: "Shooting Dad" by Sarah Vowell (doc)
• 2011 October: "Bombs Bursting in Air" by Beth Johnson (doc)
• 2012 February: "Creating Your Own" by Pam Houston (doc)
• 2012 March: "The Genius of Jobs" by Walter Isaacson (doc)
• 2012 April: "Music is My Bag" by Meghan Daum (doc)
• 2012 June: "The Memory Place" by Barbara Kingsolver (pdf)