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Checkpoints

Most lessons will have one or more Checkpoints, where you'll get a chance to put together what you've learned in the lesson. This might be a completely new piece of writing, or we might copy across something you have already written and give you a chance to revise and polish it.

Checkpoint pieces are like a "mini-assessment". Your teacher will be able to look at your work and provide you with feedback. These pieces can also appear in peer feedback activities such as Peer Review and Wrotevote.

Just like for a regular exercise, we will give you a snippet of text that uses the pattern or techniques you should use, but you will need to figure out for yourself how it applies, and carry what you see over to your own writing.

For this example checkpoint, here's the "snippet explanation" again. Do you remember the pattern it used?

This is a snippet. It's a genuine piece of text that someone has written for a specific purpose. You can click "Show our highlighting" below to see the pattern they used. Or you can try to identify the pattern yourself by clicking a highlighter above and dragging your mouse over the relevant span of text.

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Then we will give you a textbox for your own response. In this case, we've copied over your work from the previous page. Try editing it! You can change as much as you want, or even scrap it completely and write a whole new response. Remember, you need to click Next to save your work.

Nope! Any changes you make on this page won't affect your response on the 'Basic exercise' page.

Try it:

  1. Make some changes to the response we've pasted for you below.
  2. Click Next to save your work.
  3. Use the side navigation to go back to the 'Basic exercise' page. Notice that your original response is unchanged!
  4. Click Next to come back to the Checkpoint. Notice that any changes you made in Step 1 are still there.
We've copied your response here. You can make any changes that you want before clicking 'Next'.

If your teacher has enabled it, you will also see a reflection prompt with its own textbox. There are all sorts of things you can reflect on, like:

  • When you think a particular pattern or technique would be useful in your 'real-world' writing, and why (or why you think it wouldn't be useful)
  • What effect you were trying to create in your response, the techniques you used, and how effective you think they were
  • What was easy or difficult about writing your response
  • And many other possibilities!

If you haven't already, write something in the reflection box above, then click Next and we'll talk a little bit about getting feedback in Writelike.

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