This unit (VU22441) describes the skills and knowledge to develop writing skills to create highly complex text types for personal purposes across a range of contexts including specialised contexts. Learners at this level work autonomously and use and evaluate a broad range of support resources.

Unit details

Study level:
Vocational and further education (TAFE)
Unit code:
VU22441

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Assessment

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines. Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills: - create highly complex relationships between ideas and purposes; - critically evaluate and extend writing; - apply drafting and revision processes; - evaluate feedback and critically discriminate the value and relevance of feedback in order to improve writing; - gather, organise and synthesise content, and; - review writing to enhance meaning and effectiveness.Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge: - a broad vocabulary including idiom, colloquialisms and cultural references to express content; - a variety of complex grammatical structures and stylistics devices to support meaning; - a range of genres and styles of writing; - registers and how they influence expression, meaning, and relationships, and; - organisational structures of writing for community participation.

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