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  1. Write your answer. Take 20 minutes and don't use a dictionary.
  2. Wait a day or so.
  3. Use the checklist to check your answer. Also use a dictionary, your computer's spellchecker, and a grammar book.
  4. Ask a friend to check your answer, too. Ask them to use the checklist, and ask them to draw the diagram based on your answer.
  5. Write the answer again. It should be much better!
  6. Keep a list of your common mistakes.

Example

A student (Torno) wrote an answer and assessed it himself. He then asked a friend (Naomi) to assess it.

The charts below show the number of visitors arriving in a particular country for a short trip, and the number of residents leaving that country for a short trip.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

Toma's answer

Thease charts shows number of people for visitor and residents departures for short trip in one country. There are some charactoristic datas in charts.
Firstly,The number of visitor arrivals from overseas was glowing up. from Oct, 2009 to Oct, 2010, for one year. Then from the peak of Oct 2010, the number of people was going down rapidly within one year.
Secondy, number of resident departures was growing up from Oct, 2009 to Jun; 2011. It has grown about 100,000 people per year:
To summarise for thease charts, I guss that this country's economy was growing and growing, and in Oct 2010,There was big event in this country. In this time the charts show the peak of visitor and stay of number of departure. Then there was rapid going up of resident departures.

Toma's self-assessment

Feature Example
Task Achievement (Unit 2)
Does it give an overview of main patterns? yes Visitors growing and then going down. Residents just growing.
Does it talk about the most important details? yes
Does it have any irrelevant information !tor example, personal experience or opinions)? no
Does it quote numbers and other data accurately? yes Actually, not so much numbers.
Coherence and Cohesion (Unit 3).
Is it well organised? yes First paragraph is about visitor.
Is it easy to understand how one idea flows to the next one? Second is resident.
Third is comparison.
Does it use a variety of linking words and linking structures? no Lots of same vocabulary.
Lexical Resource (Unit 4)
Does it use a wide variety of vocabulary, including phrasal verbs, academic words, and collocations? no A lots of same phrases.
'Grow' a lot.
'Stay' should be 'plateau'.
'Go down' should be 'fall' or 'decline'.
Are most words spelled correctly? yes mistake:
growing/glowing characteristic/ charactoristic.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy (Unit 5)
Does it use a variety of grammatical structures? no
Are grammar and punctuation mostly correct? yes

Naomi's assessment

Feature Example
Task Achievement (Unit 2)
Does it give an overview of main patterns? no The first paragraph copies the question. It doesn't say going up or going down.
Does it talk about the most important details? no NO numbers!! Should say '500,000' and '660,000'.
Does it have any irrelevant information [for example, personal experience or opinions]? Don't 'guess' about a 'big event'.
Does it quote numbers and other data accurately? no No! There aren't any numbers.
Coherence and Cohesion (Unit 3)
Is it well organised? yes
Is it easy to understand how one idea flows to the next one?
Does it use a variety of linking words and linking structures? OK 'Firstly', 'secondly', 'then'.
Maybe use something like 'however', 'furthermore'.
Lexical Resource (Unit 4)
Does it use a wide variety of vocabulary, including phrasal verbs, academic words, and collocations? OK Some good words: 'rapidly', 'peak'.
Are most words spelled correctly? OK Mistakes:
Thease, charactoristic, guss
Grammatical Range and Accuracy (Unit 5)
Does it use a variety of grammatical structures? no 'was growing ... was going ... was growing ... was going'
Are grammar and punctuation mostly correct? yes 's' is wrong sometimes 'these charts shows'.

Torno used Naomi's comments and his own checklist to improve his answer:

Toma's answer, version 2

These charts show that number of visitors and residents departures for short trip were increasing the same from 2009 to 2010 but after the peak of 2010, visitors numbers fell and resident departures grew.
Firstly,The number of visitor arrivals from overseas improved from 490,000 in Oct 2009 to 530,000 in Oct 2010. Then from the peak of Oct 2010, the number of people was decreasing rapidly within one year to 490,000.This is the same as starting figure in Oct 2009.
Secondly, number of resident departures had risen from 550,000 in Oct, 2009 to 650,000 in June 2011. It had grown steadily but it has a plateau for maybe 2 months in Oct 2009. This is same time visitor arrivals started to decline.
To sum up,there was a peak in visitor arrivals and a short time of plateau in October 2010 for number of departures.Then there was rapid increase of resident departures and decline of visitor arrivals.

Checklist for Toma's version 2

Feature Example
Task Achievement (Unit 2)
Does it give an overview of main patterns? yes 1. Both things go up at first.
2. In 2010 visitor arrivals started to go down while resident departures went up.
Does it talk about the most important details? yes
Does it have any irrelevant information [for example, personal experience or opinions]? no
Does it quote numbers and other data accurately? yes
Coherence and Cohesion (Unit 3)
Is it well organised?
Is it easy to understand how one idea flows to the next one?		 yes
Does it use a variety of linking words and linking structures? some 'then', 'this', 'but', 'firstly', 'secondly'.
Lexical Resource (Unit 4)
Does it use a wide variety of vocabulary, including phrasal verbs, academic words, and collocations? some Better. More variety.
Are most words spelled correctly? yes
Grammatical Range and Accuracy (Unit 5)
Does it use a variety of grammatical structures? no Better. 'was decreasing', 'had risen', 'started to go'.
Are grammar and punctuation mostly correct? no Most sentences have errors with articles (a, an, the). However, punctuation is better.
- Activity 6.1

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