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I wanted to consult you how you rate yourself on writing prompts if you were unable to write the character just with the English definition and had to discover the reading
Do you rate as green, as you were able to write the characters? Or yellow because you didn't know the tremanskation of the word so couldn't have written in a text, or red?

I think this is really a personal preference. The way I grade is, if I can write something and it's a writing prompt, it's correct-- so if using the English definition alone (with the reading hidden) isn't good enough to first know how it's pronounced, but then revealing the reading gives it away and I can write the word successfully, I still count it as correct. I think it's a slightly different ability to know how a word is pronounced based on the English, versus knowing how something is written based on a reading, and that a Japanese word shouldn't be written from the English without processing it in Japanese first, knowing how it's pronounced (and subconsciously which sounds belong to which kanji/kana). Since it's a writing prompt and not a reading prompt, I think it should be marked as correct if you are able to write the word (even if you were unable to do it without revealing the reading first). Since the reading should always be thought of first when writing a word, having it hidden should probably be treated as an extra bonus self test if you really know how the word is pronounced and written, and so the grading shouldn't be influenced by *having* to reveal the reading to know the writing versus automatically seeing it and it helping. Another example could be, say you have just the English definition showing, you write the word successfully but then realize you were mispronouncing it in your head when the reading reveals after you finish writing, it should technically still be marked as correct since you did write it successfully, and you will want to sort out that mispronunciation problem for the word in it's reading prompt, which should be coming back more often than it's writing prompt, since the reading prompt for it would be marked wrong, and the writing prompt marked correct. (If any of that ramble makes sense!)