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- Subject: English
- AS: 90053
- Level: 1
- Credits: 3
- Internal
1.5 Produce formal writing
Terminology
Here are explanations for terminology used in the achievement criteria for this achievement standard. They are grouped by level of achievement.
On this page: Achievement | Achievement with Merit | Achievement with Excellence
Achievement
Develop and structure ideas
Ideas may be your opinion on a topic, facts, or information.
Ideas support the main reason or purpose for your piece of writing.
Develop ideas means to build on an idea by adding detail, to form a cohesive piece of writing. You can do this by linking ideas and/or details into a complete and logical unit of writing.
Details may include explanation, examples, or evidence relating to the main ideas.
Details help to support and develop ideas making them more believable and persuasive.
Structure ideas means ordering and organising writing into an introduction, middle, and conclusion to suit the task, purpose and the reader.
Language features are the techniques and writing conventions that a writer uses to add meaning and interest to their work. This could include word choice and order, use of appropriate language for the text type and purpose. For example you could use language features such as: rhetorical question, listing and repetition to develop and back up an idea in formal writing.
Writing conventions are the rules used when writing such as: spelling, punctuation, grammar, word choice, order of words, sentences and paragraphing.
Without intrusive error patterns means that your writing should be free of significant and/or repeated error patterns such as sentence fragments, mixed tense sequences, mis-capitalisation and spelling.
Appropriate to audience and purpose means the way it is written is suitable for the reader and the type of writing.
Formal writing includes: reports, commentaries, text reviews, , articles, expository essays, digital text forms, explanations, letters to the editor and other appropriate formal writing text types.
Achievement with Merit
Convincingly means the way it is written makes the writing seem believable, real, or have an impact in some way. Ideas may be connected or linked between paragraphs through language, structure or thought.
Control means to carefully select words and language techniques for a specific reason.
Writing conventions used accurately
Accurately means work has been closely and carefully proofread to a near-perfect standard with limited errors, so that only minor editing is required.
Achievement with Excellence
Effectively means clever, interesting, or offers a new way of looking at the topic to challenge the reader. The ideas and structure will follow a unique carefully thought through plan that draws the most important elements of the writing together.
Commands attention means the reader finds it very interesting, informative, worthwhile, or persuasive, they can’t put it down. This can be done by: having a unique writing style, skilled use of language, using of a wide range of language techniques, and varying sentence structures.
Writing conventions accurately
Accurately means work has been closely and carefully proofread to a near-perfect standard with limited errors, so that only minor editing is required.
