Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academica and Research Vice-Rector

Activity 2 : Writing Assignment – Guide & Rubric

1. General description of the course

School or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Level of Technical-Technological-Professional-Master
formation
Field of Common Basic Interdisciplinary formation
Formation
Course name English III
Course code 90121
Type of Methodological Can it be Ye ☐ N ☒
course retaken? s o
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of Collaborativ
Individual ☐ ☒ of 6
activity: e
weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unidad:
Delivery environment:
Evaluative score: 120 points
Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date: June 21st, Closing date: August 1st,
2019 2019
Competence to develop:
Writing skill: The students write short texts coherently about
academic topics related to their discipline and use the semantics
appropriately.
Topics to develop:
Compound adjectives, Modal verbs, Past Progressive, Time and
enough clauses, Uses fo –ING forms, Future.
Phases, steps or stages of the learning strategy to
develop
Act. 2 : Writing Assignment
Activities to develop

into account!

Environme
nts to its
Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and
developme
Evaluation
nt

Individual:
Part 1: Send 10 sentences using the modal verbs
of obligation and advice regarding your role at
home.

Part 2: Send 10 sentences using past progressive

taking into account what you were doing and you
were not a few hours ago.

Part 3: Write your own text about how you

imagine your city will be in fifty years and send it
in the forum.

Products
to submit
by the
students

Collaborative:
Part 4: Send in the forum your comments about
two partners’ contributions.

Submit the final product taking into account this:

Consolidate activities and the texts (Step 1 to 4).
PDF file which will be sent at Monitoring and
Evaluation Environment.
File Name: FinalWriting_FirstName_Surname
Example: FinalWriting_Jose_Alvarez
 General guidelines of the collaborative work for
developing the activity

• Each student must choose a role according to

his abilities and competences and tell it to his
partners.
 To read the unit contents taking into account
the references because they support the
activities.
Planning
 Each student must participate active and
activities to
thoughfully in collaborative activities.
develop the
 To share the appropriate contributions on time
collaborativ
for each activity.
e work
 To work together developing all the activities
according to this guide.
 To check continuously the time of developing
and submiting collaborative assignments
according to the Course agenda and activity
guide.
Roles to
Collector
perform by
Reviewer
the student
Evaluaror
in the
Submissions
collaboativ
Alerts
e group
Roles and Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
responsibili participants of the collaborative group in order to
ties to consolidate the final paper; including only those
produce who took part of the whole process.
the
submitions Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and
by the process meet all the requirements established by
students the teacher.

Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets

the criteria established by the rubric. The
evaluator must inform the group about any
corrections or adjustments regarding the quality
of the document.
 Submissions: To keep track and inform the
group about the submission time, upload the final
paper on time, using the link provided by the
teacher or established by the activity guide. To
notify the group members the final paper was
submitted.

Alerts: To notify all the group members about

changes or news related to the submission or
elaboration of the final paper. To notify the
teacher through the collaborative forum and the
course mail that the final paper was submitted.
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order
to provide a bibliography of the sources cited in
the document
Use of
references Use this link as reference:
http://normasapa.com/formato-apa-
presentacion-trabajos-escritos/

Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013,

policy article 99, the mistakes that infringe upon the
academic order, among others, are the following:
paragraph e) “To plagiarize is to present as your
own work the whole or part of a writing, report,
task or document of invention performed by
another person. It also implies the use of cites or
lack of references, or includes cites where there
is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or
copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have intellectual rights
reserved for the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will

face are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved
will be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary
measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the
academic work of any nature, the score achieved
will be zero (0.0), without leading to disciplinary
measures.

To know how the documents must be cited,

check the following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA.
Sexta edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/inde
x.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=138:norm
as-apa&catid=45:referencias-
bibliograficas&Itemid=
4. Evaluation Rubric
Evaluation Rubric
Individual Collaborati
Type of activity: ☐ ☒
activity ve activity
Moment of Intermedi
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation a, unit
Scor
Peformance level of individual activity
Item e
High score Media score Low score
The student did
not handle
Grammar used in
gramar
the writing
structures in the
assignment shows
writing The
a good handle of
assignment student did
structures. The
according to the not
Gramma student expressed 25
level. The participate
r situations using poin
student used in the
modal verbs, ts
different activity.
phrasal verbs and
structures from
future tense
the established
appropriately.
ones in the
guide.
(Up to 25 (Up to 13
(0 points)
points) points)
Ideas and
It was possible to grammatical
The
understand clearly construction in
student did
the message and the writing were
not
Coheren main idea of the not coherent, it 20
participate
ce and text. The content was poin
in the
cohesion met the disorganized ts
activity.
guidelines. and the aim was
not clear.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(0 points)
points) points)
Vocabula In the text the It lacked a The 20
ry and student used good use of student did poin
Spelling appropriately the proper not ts
 vocabulary
addressed in the
units and it is
vocabulary in
according to the
the writing participate
guidelines. The
assignment, in the
student used
besides it was activity.
properly the order
too limited.
of adjectives to
describe his
feelings.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(0 points)
points) points)
The student
developed and
submitted the
The student
final paper but it
submitted
was incomplete. The
appropriately the
The assignment student did
final paper
met the not
following the
Final structures participate 20
instructions. The
product partially. The in the poin
student met all
students did not activity. ts
the steps of this
send the final
activity.
task in the
correct
environment.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(0 points)
points) points)
Performance levels of collaborative activity
Scor
Item Media
High score Low score e
score
Participa Participation The The student did 35
tion and s were student’s not participate in poin
interacti meanigful, participation the activity. ts
on in the linked and s were poor
forum contribute to and/or did
the not met the
construction requirement
of the final s. The
paper. The student did
 student
contributed
appropiately
and
meaningful not choose a
according to role nor
his role. The made
student’s comments
contributions about his
follow the partners’
netiquette contribution
rules and s.
were sent on
time. The
student met
his roles.
(Up to 35 (Up to 18
(0 points)
points) points)
120
Final score
points