Focus on the following for the Academic Writing exam. Got these out of the structure.

Section A
● Distinctive features of academic writing.
● Essay structure and paragraph structuring and development.
● Principles of paragraphing.
● Describe paragraph types in terms of structure and content development.
● Give an introduction and conclusion to a paragraph.
● Describe or discuss with textual evidence, how the principles of paragraphing have been
applied in a given essay.
● Explain why a particular essay passes an example of academic essay , based on the
relevant distinctive features identifiable in such essays.

Section B

● Writing process, pre-writing and post-writing.

Pre-writing
1. Ability to brainstorm and generate outlines for an essay.
2. Know how to write good outlines.

Post-writing
1. Proofreading and editing.
2. Understand language issues treated in academic writing, including errors to avoid in
terms of grammar, tense and punctuation.