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: September Closing date: October 27th,
16th, 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 modal verbs regarding your duties
and rights as a teacher in a school: can – could – may - must -
should - ought to – have to – need to- had better - would.

Example:
 The teacher must check and grade the students’ tasks and
exams on time.
 The teachers shouldn’t use cellphones while they are
working with students in the classrooms.

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

you must write 10 things you were doing a few hours ago using
when and while:

Example: When I was doing the washing up I broke a plate.

While I was listening to music, my pet destroyed My
shoe.

Part 3: Write a text about how you imagine the movies will be in
twenty years. Use some pictures related to your text. You should
write four paragraphs:

 Paragraph 1: Introduction
 Paragraph 2: Features: length, characters, topics, time, etc.
 Paragraph 3: Special effects
 Paragraph 4: Talk about the biography movie you would like to
watch in twenty years

Example: People will go to special multimedia rooms where there

will be a personal cubicle to enjoy interactively the movies.

Each paragraph must have minimum four (4) sentences and

maximum six (6) sentences. It must have a title, from 230 words
to 250 and it is necessary to use and highlight the following
topics:
 Modal verbs
 Future
 Phrasal verbs

Part 4: Students must comment about two 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!
Environments
to its Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and
development Evaluation

Individual:
Part 1: Send 10 sentences using the modal
verbs of obligation and advice regarding a
teacher’s duties and rigths.
Products to
Part 2: Send 10 sentences using past
submit by the
progressive taking into account what you were
students
doing a few hours ago using when and while.

Part 3: Write your own text about how you

imagine the movies will be in twenty years and
send it in the forum.
 El cine es una de las industrias más
importantes y que más invierte dinero
en avances tecnológicos para mejorar
cada día para ser más innovadoras y
compañías de cine.

Me imagino que en 20 años las

películas serán más innovadoras

en 20 años seremos parte de las

películas porque las pantallas se
verán más real más vivo nos
sentiremos dentro de la historia y las
películas tendrán mas ficción .

Me gustaría ver cómo la audiencia

interactúa más con los actores de las
películas y más comodidad en los cines las
pantallas serán más grandes.
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
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 did not
Grammar used in the
handle gramar
writing assignment
structures in the
shows a good handle of The student
writing assignment
structures. The student did not
Grammar according to the level. 25
expressed situations participate in
The student used points
using modal verbs, the activity.
different structures
phrasal verbs and future
from the established
tense appropriately.
ones in the guide.
(Up to 25 points) (Up to 13 points) (0 points)
Ideas and
It was possible to grammatical
The student
understand clearly the construction in the
Coherence did not
message and main idea writing were not 20
and participate in
of the text. The content coherent, it was points
cohesion the activity.
met the guidelines. disorganized and the
aim was not clear.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (0 points)
In the text the student
used appropriately the
vocabulary addressed in It lacked a good use
The student
the units and it is of proper vocabulary
did not
Vocabulary according to the in the writing 20
participate in
and Spelling guidelines. The student assignment, besides points
the activity.
used properly the order it was too limited.
of adjectives to describe
his feelings.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (0 points)
 The student
developed and
submitted the final
The student submitted
paper but it was
appropriately the final The student
incomplete. The
paper following the did not
Final assignment met the 20
instructions. The participate in
product structures partially. points
student met all the the activity.
The students did not
steps of this activity.
send the final task in
the correct
environment.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (0 points)
Performance levels of collaborative activity
Item Score
High score Media score Low score
Participations
were meanigful,
linked and
contribute to the
The student’s
construction of
participations
the final paper.
were poor
The student
and/or did not
contributed
met the
appropiately and
Participatio requirements. The student did not
meaningful
n and The student did participate in the activity. 35
according to his
interaction not choose a points
role. The
in the forum role nor made
student’s
comments about
contributions
his partners’
follow the
contributions.
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