Virginia SOL 12.W.3.D
The Standard
Write and revise to a standard acceptable both in the workplace and in postsecondary education.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write and revise clear, polished work for academic and professional readers. They correct usage and mechanics while adjusting tone, wording, organization, and format for the situation.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students independently correct errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and sentence structure. Their final draft is clear, concise, appropriately formal, and consistently formatted.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume spellcheck catches every error, including wrong words and unclear sentences. They may also think formal writing must sound wordy or that revision means fixing only spelling and punctuation.
How to Assess It
- Give students a flawed 120-word email to a professor or supervisor. Ask them to submit a polished revision and briefly explain three changes.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a flawed cover letter and colored pens to mark usage, mechanics, tone, and formatting before producing a corrected copy.
Compare a casual text with an email to a professor, then write three specific revisions that make the email clear and professional.
Run an editing relay where teams correct one sentence at a time for agreement, pronoun use, punctuation, spelling, and clarity.
Rewrite a casual message as a workplace request, including a clear subject line, greeting, specific action, deadline, and closing.
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Related Standards
- 11.W.3.D
Write and revise to a standard acceptable both in the workplace and in post-secondary education.
- 11.W.3.C
Edit writing for appropriate conventions, style, and language (See Language Usage for grade level expectations).
- 10.W.3.C
Edit writing for appropriate conventions, style, and language (See Language Usage for grade level expectations).
- 12.W.1.B.ii
Create clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style matches the intended audience and purpose of the workplace and/or post-secon...
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