The other day, my small in-company CAE exam class asked me to write a model for a Job Application Letter on the board, so that's what I precisely did (above). There's only a couple of students in the class so it's always easy to just start writing and get the students to co-write it with me.
Of course, the idea is to raise the students' awareness of the external (4-5 paragraph) structure and the internal structure (use of linking devices; functional language; good vocabulary; use of rhetorical questions; formal versus informal social register etc.) of any CAE piece of writing. For me, the 20-minute co-construction process above is as good as any technique for doing this. Yes, it's primitive but for my situation it's perfect.
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