ASSESSING

WRITING
ASSESSING WRITING
-is no simple task
GENRES of WRITING
1. Academic Writing
papers and general subject reports
essays, compositions, academically
focused journals, short-answer test
responses, technical reports, thesis,
dissertations
GENRES of WRITING
2. Job-related Writing
messages, letters/ e-mails, memos,
reports, schedules, labels, signs
advertisements, announcements,
manuals
GENRES of WRITING
3. Personal Writing
*letters *financial documents
*e-mails *forms
*greeting cards *questionnaires
*medical reports
*invitations
*immigration
*messages notes documents
*calendar entries *diaries
*shopping lists *personal journals
*reminders *fiction
TYPES of WRITING PERFORMANCE
1. Imitative
2. Intensive
3. Responsive
4. Extensive
1. IMITATIVE

*At this stage, FORM is the primary focus

*basic tasks of writing letters
*words
*punctuations
2. INTENSIVE

* “controlled”
*produce appropriate vocabulary
*correct grammar
*meaning and context
*correctness and appropriateness
3. RESPONSIVE

*the writer has mastered the fundamentals

of sentence-level grammar and is more focused
on the discourse conventions that will achieve
objectives of the written text.
4. EXTENSIVE

* Implies successful management of all the

process and strategies of writing for all purposes.

*The writer focus on achieving a purpose,

organizing and developing ideas logically.
MICRO AND MACROSKILLS
OF WRITING
MICROSKILLS

• Produce graphemes and orthographic

patterns of English
• Produce writing at an efficient rate of
speed to suit the purpose.
• Produce an acceptable core of words and
use appropriate word order patterns.
MICROSKILLS
• Use acceptable grammatical systems
(tense, agreement, pluralization) patterns,
and rules.
• Express a particular meaning in different
grammatical forms.
• Use cohesive devices in written
discourse.