VU23776 - Create simple texts for personal purposes

Unit code: VU23776 | Study level: TAFE
25
Footscray Nicholson
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to create simple texts for personal purposes. It requires the ability to develop writing skills to plan, produce and review simple, familiar and predictable texts for personal purposes. This unit is designed for those who wish to improve their personal written communication skills to create simple texts to meet a personal context and purpose. Learners at this level may request support and begin to develop their own support resources.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • source appropriate information to produce texts
  • review and amend own writing
  • select audience and purpose of texts and use appropriate language and structure suitable to the text type
  • use digital devices safely
  • use search engines to locate information
  • search for information in a digital environment
  • select and use appropriate digital applications to produce texts use appropriate layout conventions to produce digital documents
  • apply a limited number of digital netiquette conventions

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • stages or processes of writing including planning, drafting and editing
  • punctuation conventions of sentence writing
  • simple sentence structure consisting of one or two clauses
  • simple verb tenses and routine word order patterns related to text type
  • upper and lower case letters and their functions
  • structure of text related to text type
  • simple conjunctive devices to link ideas such as “and” and “but”
  • familiar letter patterns for spelling
  • simple adjectives, pronouns and prepositions related to content of texts.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

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