VU23800 - Create texts of limited complexity for personal purposes

Unit code: VU23800 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
25
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to develop writing skills and create familiar, and some less familiar paper based and digital texts for personal purposes. It requires the ability to plan, produce and review texts of limited complexity in contexts related to personal purposes. It is designed for individuals who can write independently in familiar and some less familiar contexts, and who are seeking to produce texts of greater complexity, in order to further improve their writing skills for personal purposes. Learners at this level work independently and use their own familiar 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
  • locate information to create texts
  • match audience and purpose to appropriate text type
  • use grammatical forms appropriate to text purpose
  • use digital devices safely
  • use search engines to locate information
  • select and use appropriate digital applications to produce texts such as email or word applications
  • use appropriate layout conventions to produce digital documents
  • apply routine digital netiquette conventions

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • process of planning, drafting and proofreading
  • the major differences between public and private writing
  • difference between formal and informal registers
  • layout related to specific text types
  • complex and compound sentences
  • verb tenses used appropriately according to text type
  • use of vocabulary to convey shades of meaning

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.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate I in General Education for Adults
22690VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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