Matching Pairs Writing: CharacteristicsOnline version This is an exercise aimed at identifying the characteristics of the written production. INSTRUCTIONS: MATCH THE COLUMNS by Guillermina Ocampo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 It should be clear because immediate feedback is not possible. Never repeat anybody else’s ideas or words without acknowledgment. The writer and the reader do not have contact in time and space. Reading is possible at any time and any speed. Writing needs to be TAUGHT and LEARNT. Use of topic sentences, paragraphs, units, conventional rules of grammar, formal and precise vocabulary. There is no room for fillers, repetitions and redundancy. The idea of an audience generates contact. Something cannot be changed once it is written. The reader can go over it as many times as wanted.