ASSESSING WRITING

ASSESSING WRITING

1. Genres of written lamguage

   • Academic writing
   • Job-related writing
   • Personal writing

2. TYPES OF WRITTING PERFORMANCE

   • Imitative
   • Intensitive
   • Responsitive
   • Extensive

3. MICRO AND MACROSKILLS OF WRITTING

   • Microskills
     • Produce graphemes and orthographic
     • Produce writing at an efficient rate
     • Use accepable core of words
     • Use cohesive devices in written discourse
   • Macroskills
     • Use rhetorical forms and conventions
     • Communicative functions of written texts by form and purpose
     • Distinguish between literal and implied meaning
     • Convey links and connections between events and communictive

4. DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: IMITATIVE WRITING

   • Tasks in Writing Letters, Words and Punctuation
     • Copying
     • Listening cloze selection tasks
     • Picture-cued tasks
     • Form completion tasks
     • Converting numbers and abbreviations to words
   • Spelling Tasks and Detecting Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences
     • Spelling tests
     • Picture-cued tasks
     • Multiple Choice techiques
     • Matching phonetic symbols

5. DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS: INTENSIVE WRITING

   • Dictation and dicto-Comp
   • Grammatical Transformation Tasks
   • Picture-Cued Tasks
     • short sentences
     • Picture description
     • Picture sentence description
   • Vocabulary Assessement Tasks
   • Ordering Tasks
   • Short-Answer and Sentence Completion Tasks

6. DESIGNING ASSESSMENT TASKS RESPONSIVE AND EXTENSIVE WRITING

   • Paraphrasing
   • Guide Question and Answer
   • Paragraph Construction Tasks
     • Topic sentence Writing
     • Topic development within a paragraph
     • Development of main and supporting ideas
   • Strategic Options
     • Attending to task
     • Attending to genre