Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academica and Research Vice-Rector

Activity 3 : 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: 95 points
Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date: June 28th, Closing date: August 8th,
2018 2018
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.
Phases, steps or stages of the learning strategy to
develop
Act. 3 : Writing Assignment
Activities to develop

Part 1: After checking the Unit 1 Topic 2 : Modal Verbs, write 2

sentences using each one of the following modal verbs regarding
your daily life: can – could – may - must - should - ought to –
have to – need to- had better - would.

Example:
 I must go to the doctor because I have a toothache.

Part 2: According to the following picture, each student must

choose three pictures and write the sentences using past
progressive (Unit 1 – Topic 3):

Example: My father was fixing his car in the garaje yesterday.

Part 3: Write a text about the activities you were doing

yesterday; you can use time. Use at least two pictures related to
your day. You should write three paragraphs:

Example: I was taking my breakfast at home at 7:00 a.m.

 Paragraph 1: In the morning

 Paragraph 2: In the afternoon
 Paragraph 3: At night

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 the following topics:

 Modal verbs
 Past progressive
 When and while

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
Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and
developme
Evaluation
nt

Products Individual:
to submit Part 1: Send 10 sentences using the modal verbs
by th of obligation and advice.
students
Part 2: Send three sentences using past
progressive taking into account the picture.

Part 3: Write your own text about the activities

you were doing yesterday and send it in the
forum.
 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
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.
 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.
the
submitions
by the
Submissions: To keep track and inform the
students
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 According to Dictionary Real Academia Española

policy “Plagiarism is the action of substantially copying
other people's works, presenting them as own
creation." Therefore, plagiarism is a serious
offense; academically speaking it is equivalent to
theft. A student who plagiarizes does not take his
education seriously, and does not respect the
intellectual work of others.
There is no small plagiarism. Using any portion of
another person's work, without acknowledging
the author or source is plagiarism. Now, it is
evident that we all take some ideas from others
when it comes to presenting ours, and that our
knowledge is based on someone else’s
knowledge. But when we rely on the work of
others, academic honesty requires that we
explicitly announce the fact that we are using an
external source, either by citing or by
paraphrasing (these terms will be defined below).
When we cite or paraphrase, we clearly identify
our source, not only to give recognition to its
author, but also to allow the reader to look up in
a reference text.

There are certain academic events in which it is

not acceptable to quote or paraphrase the work
of others. For instance, if a teacher assigns his or
her students a task in which they are clearly
required to answer using their own ideas and
words, then the student should not consider
external sources regardless if they are properly
referenced.
4. Evaluation Rubric
 Evaluation Rubric
Individual Collaborati
Type of activity: ☐ ☒
activity ve activity
Moment of Intermedi
Starting ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation a, unit
Peformance level of individual
activity
Item Score
Media Low
High score
score score
Grammar The
used in the sutdent did
writing not handle
assignment gramar
shows a sttructures
good handle in the
of writing The
structures. assignment student
The stduent according did not
Gramma
expressed to the level. participat
r 20 points
situations The student e in the
using modal used activity.
verbs, different
phrasal structures
verbs and from the
future tense established
appropriatel ones in the
y. guide.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (0
points) points) points)
Ideas and
It was
gramatical
possible to
constructio
understand
n in the The
clearly the
writing student
message
were not did not
Coheren and main
coherent, it participat
ce and idea of the 15 points
was e in the
cohesion text. The
disorganize activity.
content met
d and the
the
aim was
guidelines.
not clear.
(Up to 15 (Up to 8 (0
points) points) points)
In the text
the student
used
appropriatel
y the
It lacked a
vocabulary
good use of
addressed in
proper The
the units
vocabulary student
and it is
in the did not
Vocabula according to
writing participat