Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Task 2 – Writing assignment

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 A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individu Collaborativ Number

☐ ☒ 6
activity: al e of weeks
Moment of Intermediat
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: e, unit 2
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score: 90 pts
and Evaluation
Starting date: February 15 , th
Closing date: March 28th, 2018
2018
Competence to develop:
Build a text that accounts for work produced with the support of the E-
Tutor and e-students. Through this exercise, the student will e-
recognition and ownership of the contents of the units, their
environment and the context to express themselves according to their
level.
Topics to develop:
Unit 1- TALKING ABOUT ROUTINES
Verb “TO BE”
Describing routines
Present simple
Unit 2 TALKING ABOUT RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
“WH” Questions
There is /there are
Talking about actions in progress

Greetings. Place descriptions. Routine descriptions

Phases of the learning strategy to develop:

Central task - Writing assignment - Production
Phase 1: Student introduce one self
Phase 2: Student explores contents to practice writing
Phase 3: Student works in collaborative groups to explore grammatical
structures
Phase 4: Students participates in the construction of the letter
Phase 5: Students give feedback and reflection on the task.
Activities to carry out:
I. PHASE ONE
Introduce yourself: Each student will share IN ENGLISH the
following personal information on complete sentences in the form
of a paragraph (Name, age, profession, marital status, address,
phone number, studies, occupation, likes and dislikes).

II. PHASE TWO:

Check exercises on the KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT:
The group has to develop all the Writing exercises from the guide.
There are 5 students for five parts. Each student develops the two
writing assignments in the forum. For example:
 For example, STUDENT A will develop the first two writing
exercises and share them in the forum

III. PHASE THREE

Develop the chart of Grammatical topics: Each student will
select ONE topic to develop in the chart like this:

TOPIC EXPLANATION/USE STRUCTURE EXAMPLES

Present
simple
Present
progressive
Adverbs of
frequency
There + be
Connectors
for writing

IV. PHASE FOUR

A. Drafting: You will write a letter to your mother describing what
your life is like after two months of moving with your
husband/wife/partner to a different country. After having decided
about the city, the pictures and the actions, the group will start
writing the letter that will be divided into paragraphs. Each student
 will write ONE PARAGRAPH. It means that each student will select
one paragraph from one color and develop it as in this instructions

for the end, i pray all days for you and my family.I miss you
and hope see soon.But dont leave hope, because i am ok
and live very happy in this place .Remember that you raised
me whit many values, for face many problems. i hope
meeting whit all, in the Christmas and share gifts like we
did it many years ago.
Note: Utilize the colors to identify the different grammar
structures used in each paragraph

B. Correcting, feedback and publishing: Each participant will

write, correct and feedback the different parts of the final text,
along with the help of the tutor
Environmen
t for the
Collaborative Learning
developmen
t
Collaborative:
Upload the Final Document in PDF FORMAT t with
following information:

1. First page: Complete names, IDs and Date

Products to
2. Second/third page: Writing practices from the content
deliver by
units
student
3. Fourth/fifth page: Chart with the grammatical topics
explained
4. Letter with pictures and the paragraphs with different
colors (conventions)

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
Each student has to contribute in the forum as follows:
activities for
1. Salutation and presentation
the
2. Contribution for writing practice
development
3. Contribution for chart
of
4. Contribution for writing the text
collaborative
5. Contribution to turn in the final PDF document
work
Roles to Each student has to write at least two significant and
perform by objective comments regarding the opinions of other
the student members of the group.
in the
collaborative The comments should remark mistakes, aspects to
group improve and contribute to the debate.
Roles and Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
responsibiliti participants of the collaborative group in order to
es for the consolidate the final paper; including only those who
delivery of took part of the whole process.
products
 Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
meet all the requirements stipulated by the teacher.

Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the

criteria stipulated 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
stipulated 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 messaging that the
final paper was submitted.
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
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” and
Plagiarism
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:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☐ ☒
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
Intermediate
the Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
, Unit 2
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
Participatio There is not
contribute to forum, besides it
n forum
the neither meets 30
& participation at
construction of the requirements
interaction all.
the final of the guide and
document. The schedule nor the
contributions netiquette
are posted standards.
 according to
the schedule.
(Up to 30 (Up to 18 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The written
The proper use outcome The grammatical
of grammar contains some structures used
shows a good grammatical are simple, they
knowledge of inconsistencies do not match the
Use of
the structures and the difficulty level
grammar 20
in the simplicity of the according to the
links
development sentences show contents of the
of contents difficulties in the course
structures.
(Up to 20 (Up to 12 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The document
The written
shows The ideas and
final document
inconsistencies sentences
contains a
in the written in the
proper
organization and document look
construction of
construction of disorganized,
sentences and
Coherence ideas; however, they are not 15
paragraphs,
the objective or articulated, or do
making use of
main point of not have a clear
logical
view is objective.
connectors.
understandable.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Although the
The final
vocabulary used
document The vocabulary
in the final
contains wide is very limited
document
variety of and does not
matches the
words which match the
Vocabulary difficulty level 15
are used difficulty level
according to the
coherently, according to the
contents of the
with contents of the
course, it is
appropriate course
limited and has
spelling.
some spelling
 mistakes.

(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 0

points) points) points)
The final
document is
The final
delivered in
document is not
the Link
delivered in the The final
established for
proper link or document is not
Final PFD that purpose
lacks some delivered at all 10
delivery and contains
dispositions in
all the
the final version
dispositions for
that matter
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 90