Task Achievement
Task Response
Coherence and Cohesion
Lexical
Grammar
"Academic Writing Task 1 is a writing task which has a defined input and a largely
predicable output. It is basically an information-transfer task which relates narrowly to the factual content of an input
diagram and not to speculated explanations that lie outside the given data."
"Task 1 criterion assesses the ability to summarize the information provided in the
input diagram by:
- identifying key feature of the information
- Providing sufficient detail to illustrate these features
- reporting the information, figures and trends accurately
- comparing or contrasting the information by adequately highlighting the identifiable
trends, principal changes of differences in the data (rather than a mechanical description reporting undifferentiated detail).
- presenting the response in an appropriate format."
"General Training Task 1
The criterion assesses the ability to:
- clearly explain the purpose of the letter
- fully address the three bullet pointed requirements set out in the task.
- extend these three functions appropriately and relevantly
- use appropriate layout for the letter
- consistently use a tone appropriate to the task"
Coherence and Cohesion
"Lexical Resource
This criterion refers to the range of vocabulary the candidates
has used and the accuracy and appropriacy of that use in terms of the specific task.
This criterion assesses:
- the variety of general words used (e.g. the use of synonyms to avoid
repetition)
- the adequacy and appropriacy of the vocabulary (e.g. topic-specific items,
indicators of writer's attitude)
- the precision of expression
- the control and application of collocations, idiomatic expressions and
sophisticated phrasing.
- the density and communicative effect of errors in spelling
- the density and communicative effect of errors in word formation."
Grammar
-Subordinate clauses
- complexity of verb phrases ie modality, auxilliary
- appropriacy of tense and voice
- use of nominalization eg. condensed noun phrase
