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 3
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: 95 points
Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date: February 19th,
Closing date: April 2nd, 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, Future tense, Prepositions and
Phrasal verbs.
Phases, steps or stages of the learning strategy to develop
Act. 3 : Writing Assignment
Activities to develop
Part 1: Choose a photograph of the most beautiful Colombian city
where you have been to. Send the photo where you appeared and
describe that place.

Part 2: Answer the following questions about the city you chose:

a. Where is the city?

b. What is the city like?
c. What is the weather like?
d. How big is the city?
e. What is the best thing about it?
f. How is the traffic in the city?

Part 3: Write a text about your ideal city of Colombia to visit on

your vacations. Use at least two pictures related to this place.
Each paragraph must have minimum four (4) sentences and
maximum six (6) sentences:
 Paragraph 1: Location and weather of the city
 Paragraph 2: Description of the city
 Paragraph 3: Activities to do in the city
 Paragraph 4: Positive and negative aspects of the city

It must have a title, from 220 words to 250 and it is necessary to

highlight with different colors the following structures required:
 Modal Verbs
 Future Tense
 Phrasal Verbs

Part 4: Students must comment about the partners’

contributions. 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 in the forum the picture and a brief
comment about it.

Products to
submit by
th students

Part 2: Send in the forum your answers about the

city.

Part 3: Write your own text 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
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/

According to Dictionary Real Academia Española

“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.

Plagiarism There is no small plagiarism. Using any portion of

policy 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 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 sutdent
Grammar used
did not handle
in the writing
gramar
assignment
sttructures in
shows a good
the writing
handle of The student
assignment
structures. The did not
according to
stduent participate
Grammar the level. The
expressed in the 20 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 20 (Up to 10
(0 points)
points) points)
Ideas and
It was possible
gramatical
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 15 points
text. The
cohesion disorganized activity.
content met the
and the aim
guidelines.
was not clear.
(Up to 15 (Up to 8
(0 points)
points) points)
In the text the It lacked a The student
Vocabulary
student used good use of did not 15 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 15 (Up to 8
(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
follwing the
Final the structures participate
instructions. The 15 points
product partially. The in the
student met all
students did activity.
the steps of this
not send the
activity.
final taks in the
correct
environment.
(Up to 15 (Up to 8
(0 points)
points) points)
Performance levels of collaborative activity
Item Low Score
High score Media score
score
Participations The student’s
were relevant, participations The
Participatio
linked and were por and/or student
n and
contribute to the did not met the did not
interaction 30 points
construction of requirements. participate
in the
the final paper. The student did in the
forum
The student not choose a activity.
contributed role nor made
 appropiately and comments about
meaningful his partners’
according to his contributions.
role. The
student’s
contributions
follow the
netiquette rules
and were sent on
time. The student
met his roles.
(Up to 30 (Up to 15 (0
points) points) points)
Final score 95 points