Business writing (деловое письмо). Палагина С.С. - 4 стр.

      1 Unit 1 Personal data

      1.1 Look through the following table and decide for yourself what kind of
writer would you like to be. Proof your choice

                             ACADEMIC WRITING SCALE

Band 9   Expert writer. Writes with authority, accuracy and style. Has a
         mastery of appropriate and concise English.

8        Very good writer. Clear and logical presentation with accurate language
         forms and good style. Just the occasional slip or infelicity reveals he/she is not a
         native writer. Often approaching bi-lingual competence.

7        Good writer. Can develop a thesis systematically with well-structured main
         and subordinate themes and relevant supporting detail. Generally
         accurate and appropriate language,layout and style. Responds to tone or
         purpose of writing task. Mainly distinguished from Band 8 performer in
         fluency,accuracy and appropriateness.

6        Competent writer. Uses a wide range of skills to convey thesis – presenting
         it in quite a well-structured fashion, arranging main and supporting themes
         and details logically. Use of lexis and grammatical patterns reasonably accurate.Slight
         limitation of style and mastery of appropriate idiom that otherwise intelligible
         presentation.
5        Modest writer. Conveys basic information competently, but logical
         structure of presentation will lack clarity. Work will show several slips and
         formal errors. Use of style and conveyance of tone is present but not
         consistent.Essay may lack interest but the basic message gets through.

4        Marginal writer. Presentation has coherent appearance and several factual
         statesments can besequentially made.Work lacks logical structure and use
         of discourse markers. Often makes logical and grammatical errors. Uses
         basic punctuation conventions.Uses restricted range of skills.Will
         backtrack and may still repeat. Basic theme is conveyed but imperfectly.

3        Extremely limited writer. Produces a string of sentences rather than an essay.
         Some theme but not logically presented. Use of simple sentence structure
         and restricted lexis with errors and inappropriacies abounding. Main merit
         is the conveyance of straightforward information.


2        Intermittent writer. No working faculty: perhaps sporadic uses.

1/0      Non-writer.Not able to write.




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