WAF7 – select appropriate and effective vocabulary
3 – In most writing
- simple, generally appropriate vocabulary used, limited in range
- some words selected for effect or occasion
4 – Across a range of writing
- some evidence of deliberate vocabulary choices
- some expansion of general vocabulary to match topic
5 – Across a range of writing
- vocabulary chosen for effect
- reasonably wide vocabulary used, though not always appropriately
6 – Across a range of writing
- vocabulary chosen generally appropriate to purpose and audience
- range of vocabulary generally varied and often ambitious, even though choices not always apt
7 – Across a range of writing
- vocabulary consistently, often imaginatively, well matched to purpose and audience
- range of vocabulary generally varied and ambitious, often judiciously chosen