Grammar: 🔄 Review & Consolidation (C2) - Reaching Full Proficiency - Capstone Projects

C2 Final Task: The Capstone Projects

Demonstrating Your Synthesized Skills

Your Goal: This final capstone project challenges you to synthesize all your C2-level skills to produce a polished, professional-level piece of writing that is perfectly adapted to its audience and purpose.

Welcome to your final consolidation activity. At this point, you have moved beyond simply learning rules and have entered the realm of mastery. C2 proficiency is not about knowing every rule, but about possessing a flexible and intuitive command of the language. It is the ability to select the perfect structure, tone, and vocabulary for any context, spontaneously and effectively.

The C2 Proficiency Checklist

As you work on your project, your writing will be evaluated based on your ability to demonstrate these C2-level skills. Use this as your personal rubric.

• Grammatical Accuracy & Range: Flawless use of all tenses and complex structures (conditionals, passives, subjunctive, etc.).
• Stylistic Sophistication: Deliberate use of devices like inversion, participle clauses, and cleft sentences for impact.
• Lexical Precision: A wide vocabulary with nuanced understanding of collocations, connotation, and register.
• Cohesion & Coherence: Seamless flow between ideas using advanced discourse markers.
• Audience & Register Awareness: The ability to adapt your tone, style, and vocabulary perfectly to the chosen task and audience.

Choose Your Capstone Project

Select one of the following three project options. Choose the one that interests you the most.

Project 1: The Persuasive Op-Ed
Write a 300-400 word opinion editorial (Op-Ed) for an international newspaper.
Topic: "To ensure its long-term survival, the Angkor Wat complex should implement a significantly stricter limit on the number of daily visitors." Argue for or against this position.

Project 2: The Formal Proposal
Write a 300-400 word formal proposal to a fictional UNESCO committee.
Topic: Propose a new sustainable community tourism project in a village near Siem Reap. Explain the project, its goals, and why it deserves funding.

Project 3: The Reflective Narrative
Write a 300-400 word piece of creative non-fiction for a literary travel magazine.
Topic: Describe a single, powerful personal experience at a Cambodian temple (it does not have to be in Siem Reap) and reflect on what it taught you about history, culture, or yourself.

The Professional Writing Workflow

Follow the professional process:

1. Brainstorm & Research: Gather your ideas and any facts you might need.
2. Outline: Structure your text paragraph by paragraph. What is your thesis? What is the topic sentence of each paragraph?
3. Write the First Draft: Focus on getting your ideas down on paper clearly.
4. Edit for Style & Substance: Review your draft. How can you make it more persuasive, clear, and sophisticated? This is where you apply your C2 stylistic skills.
5. Proofread for Accuracy: Perform one final, slow check for any grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors.

Key Vocabulary

• Proficiency (Noun) | ភាពស្ទាត់ជំនាញ
  A high degree of skill, expertise, and mastery in a particular subject.
• Synthesize (Verb) | សំយោគ
  To combine a number of things into a coherent whole.
• Capstone Project (Noun Phrase) | គម្រោងបញ្ចប់ការសិក្សា
  A final, multifaceted assignment that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience.
• Rubric (Noun) | តារាងវាយតម្លៃ
  A set of criteria used for assessing a piece of work.
• Op-Ed (Noun) | អត្ថបទមតិ
  A newspaper article expressing the opinions of a named writer who is not a regular editor or columnist for the paper.