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- Subject: English
- AS: 91101
- Level: 2
- Credits: 6
- Internal
English 2.4 Produce a selection of crafted and controlled 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
Selection of writing means that at least two pieces are chosen from a range of drafts written in different styles and taken to publication standard.
Crafted writing means to systematically revise, rework, and reshape your writing by selecting language techniques that support your ideas and structure to achieve a planned whole.
Controlled writing means to carefully select words and language techniques for a specific reason. Every aspect of your writing contributes something worthwhile to the piece.
Develops, sustains, and structures ideas involves building on ideas by adding comments, explanations, details or examples appropriate to the selected text type, and making connections between ideas, throughout a piece of writing.
An idea may be thoughts, feelings, senses, experiences, facts, opinions, information, observations and argument to help support and bring ideas to life. Ideas form a central point to base your writing around.
Language features are the techniques used to add meaning and interest to writing. This could include features such as word choice, figurative language, style, symbolism, sound devices, rhetorical question, a variety of sentence structures, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Appropriate to audience and text type means the way it is written should match the type of writing undertaken (this will be specified in the task your teacher gives you) and suit the reader. There should be accurate use of text conventions so that the writing contains only minor errors.
Effects means you know how to use appropriate language features to give a certain feeling, tone, or message in your writing.
Achievement with Merit
Convincingly means the way it is written makes the writing seem believable, real, impressive, or powerful in some way. It involves ideas and structure that are reasoned, clear, and relevant to the purpose of the text.
Convincing effects means the reader finds the language combines to support the purpose to give an interesting piece of writing.
Achievement with Excellence
Effectively means clever, interesting, or offering a new way of looking at the idea and may challenge the reader. It may involve ideas and structure that are compelling, persuasive, innovative, and/or striking.
Command attention means the reader finds it very memorable, interesting, or worthwhile – in other words, they can’t put it down. This may be done by having a unique writing style, skilled use of language, use of a wide range of language techniques, and varying sentence structures.
