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 course Methodological Can it be Yes ☐ No ☒
retaken?
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Collaborativ Number

Individual ☐ ☒ 6
activity: e of weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unidad:
Delivery environment:
Evaluative score: 120 points
Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date: February 15th, Closing date: March 28th,
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
Part 1: After checking the Unit 1 Topic 2: Modal Verbs, write 1
sentence using each one of the following modal verbs regarding
your role as citizen: can – could – may - must - should - ought to
– have to – need to- had better - would.

Example:
 I must participate in the democratic process.

Part 2: According to the topic Past Progressive (Unit 1: Topic 3),

each student must write 5 things you were doing last night and 5
things you were not:

Example: I was reading the newspaper at home.

I was not walking my dog in the park.

Part 3: Write a text about the activities you will do on a three-day

trip next vacations. Use at least two pictures related to your
journey. You should write three paragraphs:

Example: I will go to the beach with my son on Sunday afternoon.

 Paragraph 1: First day

 Paragraph 2: Second day
 Paragraph 3: Third day

Each paragraph must have minimum four (4) sentences and

maximum six (6) sentences. It must have a title, from 220 words
to 250 and it is necessary to use and highlight the following
topics:

 Modal verbs
 Future

Part 4: Students must comment about the partners’contributions

and make corrections if necessary.

Remember: All the participations must be written directly in the

forum. Please do not attach any files because they won’t be taken
into account!
Environme
nts to its
developme Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and Evaluation
nt

Individual:
Part 1: Send 10 sentences using the modal verbs
of obligation and advice.

Part 2: Send 10 sentences using past progressive

taking into account what you were doing last night.

Part 3: Write your own text about the activities

you will do on a three-day trip and send it in the
forum.

Products to
submit by
the
students

Collaborative:
Part 4: Send in the forum your comments about
the 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: Final_Writing_Group---
Example: Final_Writing_Group110
 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
collaboative
Alerts
group
Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
participants of the collaborative group in order to
consolidate the final paper; including only those
who took part of the whole process.
Roles and
responsibili
Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and
ties to
process meet all the requirements established by
produce the
the teacher.
submitions
by the
Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets
students
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/

In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013,

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”
Plagiarism and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for profit,
policy 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/index
.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:n
ormas-apa&catid=45:referencias-
bibliograficas&Itemid=
 4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Individual Collaborative
Type of activity: ☐ ☒
activity activity
Intermedia,
Moment of evaluation Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
unit
Peformance level of individual activity
Item Score
High score Media score Low score
The student
Grammar used
did not handle
in the writing
gramar
assignment
structures in
shows a good
the writing
handle of The student
assignment
structures. The did not
according to
student participate
Grammar the level. The
expressed in the 25 points
student used
situations using activity.
different
modal verbs,
structures from
phrasal verbs
the established
and future tense
ones in the
appropriately.
guide.
(Up to 25 (Up to 13
(0 points)
points) points)
Ideas and
It was possible
grammatical
to understand
construction in The student
clearly the
the writing did not
message and
Coherence were not participate
main idea of the
and coherent, it was in the 20 points
text. The
cohesion disorganized activity.
content met the
and the aim
guidelines.
was not clear.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(0 points)
points) points)
In the text the It lacked a The student
Vocabulary
student used good use of did not 20 points
and Spelling
appropriately the proper participate
 vocabulary vocabulary in in the
addressed in the the writing activity.
units and it is assignment,
according to the besides it was
guidelines. The too limited.
student used
properly the
order 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
submitted
it was The
appropriately the
incomplete. The student did
final paper
assignment met not
following the
Final the structures participate
instructions. The 20 points
product partially. The in the
student met all
students did activity.
the steps of this
not send the
activity.
final task in the
correct
environment.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10
(0 points)
points) points)
Performance levels of collaborative activity
Item Low Score
High score Media score
score
Participations The student’s
were meanigful, participations The
Participatio
linked and were poor student
n and
contribute to the and/or did not did not
interaction 35 points
construction of met the participate
in the
the final paper. requirements. in the
forum
The student The student did activity.
contributed not choose a
 appropiately and role nor made
meaningful comments about
according to his his partners’
role. The contributions.
student’s
contributions
follow the
netiquette rules
and were sent on
time. The student
met his roles.
(Up to 35 (Up to 18 (0
points) points) points)
Final score 120 points