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  1. Prologue
  2. Verify your own orthographic competence
    1. A preliminary check to try
  3. Analysing student misspellings
    1. The principal origins of misspellings
    2. Sources of misspellings to analyse
  4. Analysing ability to justify spellings
    1. Mere correctness is no measure of understanding
  5. Analysing morphological competence
    1. Specific awareness of elements
    2. Knowledge of morphological construction and analysis
  6. Analysing etymological competence
    1. Synchronic etymological competence
    2. Diachronic etymological knowledge
    3. Ability to use reference resources
  7. Analysing phonological competence
    1. The dimensions of orthographic phonology
    2. Analysing graphemic awareness
    3. Analysing phonemic awareness
  8. Analysing reading competence
    1. Spelling is conceptually prior to reading
    2. Single word reading

Orthographic Analysis

2.3 The Conduct of Orthographic Analysis

Prologue

To be valid, all analytical activity must conform the immutable reference point of rigorously established orthographic fact. Those linguistic verities are neither negotiable nor open to compromise; any analysis that does not conform to them is unsafe. Only tutors who are competent orthographers can also be competent analysers of misspelling.

What is open to discussion is how each of us realizes these orthographic facts in our teaching activity and discourse. I refuse to treat you as some sort of marionette by providing a catalogue of mechanical instructions or set script to follow. It is up to you to decide how you will interact with orthographic fact in your own way according to your own lights.

I am, though, honour bound to share with you suggestions that are examples of how I myself try to conduct real orthographic analysis.

conduct the action or manner of managing an activity.