The Australian Core Skills Framework is the common national reference point for describing performance in the core skill areas.
In the ACSF, the core skill of Writing recognises the following:
- Writing performance is influenced by whether the writing fulfills its purpose and meets the needs of its intended audience.
- Writing performance at higher levels includes the ability to write for an increasing range of purposes and audiences.
- Writing performance at higher levels incorporates increasing depth of knowledge and skill in writing in specialist areas.
The OWA assessment criteria (all ACSF levels)
- Purpose and audience
- Quality of ideas
- Text cohesion
- Language choices
- Sentence structure
- Punctuation of sentences
- Punctuation within sentences
- Spelling
ACSF indicators and focus areas
The OWA assessment criteria align directly to the following ACSF writing indicators and their focus areas:
- 05: Range
- 05: Audience and purpose
- 05: Register
- 05: Structure and cohesion
- 05: Plan, draft, proof and review
- 06: Grammar
- 06: Vocabulary
- 06: Punctuation
- 06: Spelling