ABSTRACT
This chapter allows students to demonstrate their abilities to produce new texts. The idea is that they create written or spoken pieces that meet the demands of differing audiences and purposes and take into account the conventions of genres and forms. Students need to see the act of writing as being more than the exercises in writing that they have tended to do at GCSE. There, the original writing component to course work was little more than writing for its own sake; a test of the writer's ability to write functionally. Detailed analysis of existing published material is important in establishing a successful use of genre for our student's own writing; lots of 'weaker' students may concentrate on the content of the writing that they are to produce. Clearly, those students need to be steered towards thinking about the linguistic 'make-up' of their intended writing.
