Guides to assessing writing

Practical tips on how to engage and motivate students
whether you are teaching online or offline

Write & Improve

Write & Improve is a free tool for learners of English that marks writing in seconds. Write & Improve uses new technology developed at the University of Cambridge to mark English writing accurately, in seconds. Submit your work and Write & Improve will score it on the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) scale, giving it a level from A1 (lowest) to C2 (highest). Write & Improve also shows you the parts of your text that may need improvement. So you can work more on these areas and keep improving.
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The online experience

Assessing Writing Online

This webinar looks into the most effective ways of assessing your students' writing skills online. It features practical ideas to evaluate your students' writing progress and look at how you can provide meaningful feedback to motivate your learners.
60min

Writing tests

A2 Key for Schools – teacher’s guide to assessing writing

Cambridge English's "Assessing writing for Cambridge English Qualifications: A guide for teachers" covers the assessment criteria for each of our exams in depth, including activities and commentary from actual examiners so you can know all about how we correct writing in our qualifications.

B1 Preliminary for Schools – teacher’s guide to assessing writing

Cambridge English's "Assessing writing for Cambridge English Qualifications: A guide for teachers" covers the assessment criteria for each of our exams in depth, including activities and commentary from actual examiners so you can know all about how we correct writing in our qualifications.

B2 First for Schools – teacher’s guide to assessing writing

Cambridge English's "Assessing writing for Cambridge English Qualifications: A guide for teachers" covers the assessment criteria for each of our exams in depth, including activities and commentary from actual examiners so you can know all about how we correct writing in our qualifications.

C1 Teacher guide for Writing

Cambridge English's "Assessing writing for Cambridge English Qualifications: A guide for teachers" covers the assessment criteria for each of our exams in depth, including activities and commentary from actual examiners so you can know all about how we correct writing in our qualifications.

C2 Teacher guide for Writing

Cambridge English's "Assessing writing for Cambridge English Qualifications: A guide for teachers" covers the assessment criteria for each of our exams in depth, including activities and commentary from actual examiners so you can know all about how we correct writing in our qualifications.

The Write Criteria

This webinar explores the approach to assessing writing in Cambridge English Qualifications, the assessment criteria we follow and how it is applied.
60min

Checklist to improve your student's writing: C1 Advanced

Advanced learners can use our Writing checklists for C1 Advanced to develop writing best practice and compare their work with the exam assessment criteria.

Checklist to improve your student's writing: C2 Proficiency

Advanced learners can use our Writing checklists for C2 Proficiency to develop writing best practice and compare their work with the exam assessment criteria.

Checklist for assessing writing: A2 Key for Schools

"This checklist is designed to help you assess your students’ writing. It includes a summary of the assessment criteria and useful questions tailored to each writing type in the A2 Key and A2 Key for Schools Writing paper."

Checklist for assessing writing: B1 Preliminary for Schools

"This checklist is designed to help you assess your students’ writing. It includes a summary of the assessment criteria and useful questions tailored to each writing type in the B1 Preliminary and B1 Preliminary for Schools Writing paper."

Understanding writing skills

Writing as a cognitive process

This blog post introduces the Cambridge Papers in ELT´s report on “Developing young writers in ELT“, and offers ideas to overcome the cognitive constraints overcome young learners’ cognitive constraints involved in writing.

Developing writing skills in learners of all ages

A blog post that covers all the stages of the writing process and links to further activities for all ages and levels.

Developing learner autonomy in distance learning with Write and Improve

A blog post reporting the impact of Cambridge English's Write & Improve and tips to use it for online teaching.

Developing writing skills

Useful habits to develop writing skills and understand other points of view

A 3-part series of blog posts with activities to develop the writing skills of young learners.

Activities to help young learners write sentences

A 3-part series of blog posts with activities to develop the writing skills of young learners.

Let’s engage young learners in writing – right from the start!

A 3-part series of blog posts with activities to develop the writing skills of young learners.

Get Your Teens Writing Creatively #2: Activities and ideas

A blog post with practical ideas to get your students started with writing.

Writing business emails in English

A blog post with keys to getting your students to master the skill of writing effective workplace emails.
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