MICRO AND MACRO SKILLS OF WRITING

MICROSKILLS 

• Produce graphemes and orthographic patterns of English. 

• Produce writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose. 

• Produce an acceptable grammatical systems

• Express a particular meaning in different grammatical form.

• Use cohesive devices in written discourse.

MACROSKILLS 

• Use the rhetorical forms and conventions of written discourse. 

• Appropriately accomplish the communicative functions of written texts according to form and purpose 

• Convey links and connections between the events and communicate such relations a main idea, supporting idea, new information, given information, generalization, and exemplification. 

• Distinguish between literal and implied meaning when writing. 

• Correctly convey culturally specific references in the context of the written text.