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2.1 Produce crafted and developed creative writing

Achievement criteria

The level of achievement that you receive is decided by your ability to sustain developed ideas, style, structure, and accuracy used in your writing. Each part is of equal importance. You must be able to write independently, without any assistance, in English.

On this page: Achievement | Achievement with Merit | Achievement with Excellence

Achievement

• Develop and sustain idea(s) in a piece of creative writing.
• Craft writing to create effects that are appropriate to audience, purpose, and text type.
• Structure material in a way that is appropriate to audience, purpose, and text type.
• Use writing conventions accurately.

Make sure you:

• fully brainstorm and plan out an idea so that it is supported with detail and linked purposefully to other ideas
• organise ideas and details for a specific reason such as to make a point clear by the end
• use a range of language techniques such as word choice, poetic, and sound devices
• use a specific point of view throughout (for example 'I said' is first person narrative)
• try to interest the audience by using some familiar ideas or language
• use a variety of sentence structures
• review all aspects of writing to check you have communicated your ideas clearly
• proofread thoroughly to eliminate errors
• write over 500 words.

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Achievement with Merit

• Develop and sustain idea(s) convincingly in a piece of creative writing.
• Craft controlled writing to create effects that are appropriate to audience, purpose, and text type.
• Structure material clearly, in a way that is appropriate to audience, purpose, and text type.
• Use writing conventions accurately.

Make sure you:

• reach Achievement
• write confidently using a variety of descriptive language techniques throughout the written piece
• make it 'real' and interesting for the reader
• structure material purposefully, possibly by connecting the beginning and ending or resolving the ending so that your writing is memorable
• use a range of sentence structures for deliberate effect
• revise your writing to check the structure and word choice work together to show the feelings, mood, tension, and contrast in feelings you intended to create.
• proofread thoroughly to eliminate errors
• write over 500 words.

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Achievement with Excellence

• Develop, sustain and integrate idea(s) convincingly in a piece of creative writing.
• Craft controlled writing to create effects that are appropriate to audience, purpose, and text type, and that commands attention.
• Structure material clearly and effectively, in a way that is appropriate to audience, purpose, and text type.
• Use writing conventions accurately.

Make sure you:

• reach Achievement with Merit
• create original ideas and/or a unique perspective
• write confidently using a variety of descriptive language techniques throughout the written piece
• combine complex ideas, language, and structure successfully
• use mature thought and perceptive observation in each sentence so no words are wasted
• control purposefully the point of view of your writing to deliberately to draw in and connect with the reader
• create smooth transitions between timeframes, moods, and paragraphs
• use repetition in your structure – your paragraph beginnings or endings could follow the same pattern
• review the meaning of your ideas, structure, and words so they can work on more than one level
• have a theme to support your ideas and structure (for example use extended metaphor to refer to subject in different but logical ways)
• write over 500 words.

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