Writing - Moderate Proficiency

Global Performance Descriptor

Learner demonstrates developing ability in performing moderately complex writing tasks.
Can effectively convey familiar information in familiar standard formats.
Can write one- or two-paragraph letters and compositions.
Can fill out detailed job application forms with short comments on previous experience, abilities and strengths, and form reports.
Can reproduce information received orally or visually, and can take simple notes from short oral presentations or from reference materials.
Can convey information from a table, graph or chart in a coherent paragraph.
Can write down everyday phone messages.
Demonstrates good control over simple structures, but has difficulty with some complex structures and produces some awkward sounding phrases (word combinations).

Circumstances range from informal to more formal occasions.
Addressees are familiar.
Topics are of immediate everyday relevance.
Text is one or two short paragraphs.
Text to reproduce is up to one or one and one-half pages in legible handwriting or print, or may be a short oral text (10 to 15 minutes).
Texts are varied and may be of a specialized or technical nature.
Learner may fill out a teacher-prepared summary grid to aid note taking or summarizing.
Forms are moderately complex in format, 30 to 40 items long.
Messages are five to six sentences or one paragraph long.
Text is one to two paragraphs long on a familiar and personally relevant topic.
Where necessary for the task, learners must include information presented to them from other sources (e.g., photographs, drawings, reference text/research information, diagrams).