Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 2 – Writing Task

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English B1+
Course Code 900004
Course Type Methodological Can be ye ☐ N ☒
re- s o
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the Individua
☐ Collaborative ☒ of 4
activity: l
weeks
Moment of Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: :
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 90 points
and Evaluation
Starting date: February 15th,
Closing date: March 15th, 2019
2019
Competence to develop:
Build different sentences according to the topics seen, the student will
construct this with the support of the E-Tutor and e-students. Through
this exercise, the student will recognize and ownership the contents of
the unit 1 in the online contents, their environment and the context to
express themselves according to their level.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1
Compound Adjectives.
Present Progressive.
Modal Verbs
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:
Central task - Writing assignment - Production
Phase 1: Students work in collaborative groups to plan, prepare and
correct the sentences / paragraph.
Phase 2: Students present a document with the development of the
different practices in the online content (Knowledge environment).
Phase 3: The group construct a writing paragraph with the given
instructions.
Activities to carry out:
I. PHASE ONE - Individual
A. Check the online content – Unit 1 (Knowledge environment).
B. Select a Role for the collaborative activity.

II. PHASE TWO - Collaborative

After checking the online content, in the group you are going to
develop the following practices (12 practices):
 III. PHASE THREE – Collaborative
In the group, you are going to do the following (3 paragraphs):
Environment
Knowledge environment / Collaborative Learning
for the
environment / monitoring and Evaluation
developmen
environment.
t
Collaborative:
In the Evaluation and monitoring environment, upload
Products to the Final Document in PDF FORMAT with the following
deliver by information:
student 1. First page: Cover (complete names, IDs and Date)
2. Practices answered (Phase two - 12 practices).
3. Paragraphs (Phase three – Three paragraphs).

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for Each student has to contribute in the forum as
the follows:
development 1. Check the online content.
of 2. Develop the practices.
collaborative 3. Work in group for the final document.
work
Roles to
Collector
perform by
Reviewer
the student
Evaluaror
in the
Submissions
collaboative
Alerts
group
Roles and Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
responsibiliti participants of the collaborative group in order to
es to consolidate the final paper; including only those who
produce the took part of the whole process.
 Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
meet all the requirements established by 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.
submitions
by the
Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
students
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, article

policy 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/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
4. Evaluation rubric
 Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☐ ☒
Activity Activity
Moment of
the Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed Scor
activity
Aspect e
High score Media score Low score
The
There is
participations
minimum
are relevant,
participation in
articulated and
the writing
contribute to
forum, besides There is not
the
it neither meets forum
Participation construction of
the participation
& the final 20
requirements of at all.
interaction document. The
the guide and
contributions
schedule nor
are posted
the netiquette
according to
standards.
the schedule.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The written
The proper use
outcome
of grammar
contains some
shows a good
grammatical The student
knowledge of
inconsistencies didn’t
the structures
Use of and the participate in
in the 10
grammar simplicity of the the activity.
development
sentences show
of the
difficulties in
practices.
the structures.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The document
The written shows
final document inconsistencies
contains a in the
proper organization The student
construction of and didn’t
sentences and construction of participate in
Coherence 15
paragraphs, ideas; however, the activity.
making use of the objective or
logical main point of
connectors. view is
understandable.
(Up to 15 (Up to 7 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Although the
The final vocabulary used
document in the final