Students writing for a real audience also paid greater attention to the accuracy of their writing.

The fact that students had to consider a specific audience (their parents) resulted in them being creative in ways that would never have occurred to them had they been merely writing ‘compositions’. The real audience would be looking at their writing for content rather than simply underlining the grammatical errors – enabling their work to be appreciated from a real-world perspective. Further, students were creative in that they each had to write on one aspect of school life such as the school campus, interest clubs, the Secondary 1 curriculum. This required them to first investigate what the school’s facilities, clubs etc. consisted of, or how the facilities etc. had come about, and then describe them in terms of what they had to offer.