Writing the things adults actually have to write: emails to services, complaints, applications, CVs, formal letters, reports, contracts, instructions, reviews, and viewpoint pieces. Adapting form, tone, and register to the audience and the situation. Writing accurately at sentence level (grammar, punctuation, spelling) so the writing does its job.
Tested most directly by
- Pearson Edexcel FS English L2 — Writing (Ofqual 2018 §4)
Also tested by
- Edexcel IGCSE 4EA1 AO4 (Component 1 transactional writing — articles, speeches, letters, guides, reviews, leaflets)
- Edexcel IGCSE 4EA1 AO5 (writing conventions — applies to everything)
- AQA GCSE 8700 AO5 (Paper 2 viewpoint writing)
- AQA GCSE 8700 AO6 (writing conventions)
- ASDAN Lifeskills Challenge (employability writing — CVs, applications)
Cross-curriculum
- KS4 English — Transactional and functional writing (overlapping canonical territory — academic and functional writing share form, register, and audience principles)
- KS4 English — Vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation (cross-cutting writing accuracy)
- Life and Work — Employability (CVs, applications, workplace communication)
- Life and Work — Independent Living (correspondence with services, complaints, formal letters)
Suggested evidence types
- Worked CV and covering letter
- Drafted complaint to a service or company
- Formal email exchange (anonymised) demonstrating register adaptation
- Application for a real opportunity (apprenticeship, course, role)
- Reviewed and redrafted piece showing improvement