(10) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–writing
process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible
and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
(A) plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and
audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal
interests;
(B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
(i) organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions,
coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion; and
(ii) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts,
details, and examples;
(C) revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence
variety;
(D) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of
splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(ii) consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses and active and passive voice;
(iii) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb
agreement;
(iv) pronoun-antecedent agreement;
(v) correct capitalization;
(vi) punctuation, including commas in nonrestrictive phrases and clauses,
semicolons, colons, and parentheses; and (vii) correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it’s,
affect/effect, there/their/they’re, and to/two/too; and
(E) publish written work for appropriate audiences.