8 - Fluent Competence in Writing Texts of Medium Complexity
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General description:

• Learner can write a coherent, well-developed paragraph on a topic that is familiar and relevant. Can join three or four paragraphs into a larger text. Discourse structure may sometimes seem awkward, especially in textual cohesion.
• Writing, although clear in ideas to the reader, contains accuracy and lexical collocation errors, and lacks flexibility in style.
• Structures are complex, reflecting agent - event relations and logical relations of contrast, time, cause and reason, purpose and comment.
• When allowing a more personal creative expression in writing, learner often uses compensatory strategies to express herself/himself fully - "overelaboration", literal translation, false cognates, circumlocution.
• Can write routine business letters and personal but formal notes within a social domain.
• Can write down a set of clear instructions, based on oral communication or written procedural text of greater length.
• Can extract key information and relevant detail from a page long text and write a one paragraph summary.

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