What happens when you apply eBay thinking to homework?

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The only possible downside I can see to earning a degree completely by testing out is that you may not develop the skill and the ability for college level academic writing and thinking. I may have opened a touchy subject, and yes some people have great writing ability from many years of pursuing it on their own, others learned academic writing from some college classes they have attended in the past.

I believe this has a lot to do with the student. If a person wants to learn academic writing, they will do far better than if they are just taking a class or an exam to fill a box. Excelsior is pretty demanding about their Written English Requirement, so there isn't much opportunity to slide by. I was actually very surprised at the amazing quality of the BYU-Independent writing course. I take the final in a couple of weeks and then I plan to continue with their upper level writing course.

I guess I am trying to say you get what you put into any class, exam, etc. Sitting in a college class texting isn't much better than trying to slide by on a college comp exam.