Takes control over language, beginning to choose words for effect and make conscious decisions about how to shape whole texts and individual sentences.
Secure active writers can establish an appropriate style for their writing. Because of increasingly confident control over written language, they are able to shape their material appropriately for the form they have chosen. The main purpose of the writing is clear and consistent, and these writers structure their work into paragraphs that are clearly linked. In addition to these features, a consistent viewpoint and some well-chosen attention to detail mean that active writers are able to maintain the interest of their readers throughout the whole text.
Paragraphs are built from well-linked sentences with a variation in length, structure and subject. The secure active writer knows that there are choices that can be made when composing sentences and is sometimes able to exercise that choice to good effect - perhaps for emphasis or greater clarity. Active writers can deploy a range of verb forms and connectives to express meanings that are more complex. Punctuation, both at sentence boundaries and within sentences, is usually reliable: where mistakes occur, it will be in ambitious structures.
Active writers use a wider vocabulary to match the needs of their subject and make conscious word choices for effect. Inappropriate choices are still possible but will usually be 'near misses'.
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