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Writing test
By
Afriani Indria Puspita
RRA1B214029
Genres of Writing
1. Academic writing
papers, essays compositions, journals, short
answer test responses, thesis.
2. Job-related writing
messages, letters or e-mails, memo,
advertisement, announcements.
3. Personal writing
letters, e-mails, greeting cards, invitation,
notes, shopping list, diaries, fiction.
Types of Writing
Performance
MACROSKILLS
1.Use rhetorical forms and conventions
2.Appropriately accomplish the communication
functions of written text
3.Convey links and connection between events,
and communicate relations as main idea,
supporting idea, new information, given
information, generalization, and exemplification.
4.Distinguish between literal and implied
meaning
5.Correctly convey culturally specific references
in the context of the written text
6.Develop and use a battery of writing
strategies.
Designing
Assessment
(controlled) writing
Tasks:
Intensive
Holistic Scoring
Advantages:
Fast evaluation, high inter-rater reliability
easily interpreted by lay persons,
emphasize the writers strengths,
applicability to writing across many
different disciplines
Disadvantages:
No diagnostic information, not equally
well apply to all genres, training in
raters, one score only
Analytic Scoring
Analytic scoring may be more appropiately
called analytic assessment to capture its
closer assosiation with classroom language
instruction than with formal testing.
Brown and Bailey (1994) designed an
analytical scoring scale that specified five
major categories and a description of five
different levels in each category, ranging
from unacceptable to excellent.