Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 3 – 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 yes ☐ No ☒
re-
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Individ Collaborat Number

☐ ☒ 4
activity: ual ive of weeks
Moment of Intermedi
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: ate:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluative score:
and Evaluation
Starting date: July 9 , 2018
th Closing date: July 22nd, 2018
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 units, their environment and the context to express themselves
according to their level.
Topics to develop:
Units 1 and 2
Present Progressive
Wh. Questions Request
Present Perfect
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 their presentation and
the sentences.
Phase 3: Students give feedback and reflection on the task.
Activities to carry out:
I. PHASE ONE - Individual
A. Introduce yourself and select role: Each student will share
IN ENGLISH the following information on complete sentences:
Name.
Age.
Program.
City.

Also, you have to select a ROLE for the collaborative work.

Each participant is going to select a color to do his/her
participations.

II. PHASE TWO - Collaborative

B. From the book “Developing Writing” Download it in this link:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/develo
ping_writing.pdf

The group is going to choose ONE just one topic to develop:

Chapter in the
Unit / Topic Pages
book
Unit 1 – Wh.
5 25 – 30
Questions.
Unit 1 – Present
12 70 – 76
Progressive.
Unit 2 – Present
18 114 - 121
Perfect.

With the selected topic, you are going to answer all the points given in
the book, each participant has to develop at least one point. All of the
points have to be answered.
You have to write your contributions with the color selected in the
individual part.

The final document has to have the participations in colors.

C. 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.

Reference:
Wilcox; P. (2003) Developing Writing. EEUU. Writing skills practice
book for EFL. Taken from:
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/developing_
writing.pdf

Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
Collaborative:
In the Evaluation and monitoring environment,
Products to
upload the Final Document in PDF FORMAT with the
deliver by
following information:
student
1. First page: Cover (complete names, IDs and Date)
2. Chapter selected and all the answers of the topic.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
Each student has to contribute in the forum as
activities for
follows:
the
1. Introduce yourself, role and color selection
development
2. In group choose a topic and the corresponding
of
chapter from the book.
collaborative
3. Work in group for the final 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
The comments should remark mistakes, aspects to
collaborative
improve and contribute to the debate.
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.

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
Roles and
inform the group about any corrections or
responsibiliti
adjustments regarding the quality of the document.
es for the
delivery of
Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
products
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.
According to Diccionario de la 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
Plagiarism student who plagiarizes does not take his education
policy 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 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 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The written
outcome
contains some
The proper use
grammatical The student
of grammar
inconsistencies didn’t
shows a good
Use of and the participate in
knowledge of 10
grammar simplicity of the the activity.
the structures
sentences show
difficulties in
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 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Although the
The final vocabulary used
document in the final
contains wide document
variety of matches the The student
words which difficulty level didn’t
are used according to the participate in
Vocabulary coherently, contents of the the activity. 15
with course, it is
appropriate 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 The student
delivered in the
Final PFD established for didn’t
proper link or 10
delivery that purpose participate in
lacks some
and contains the activity.
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 70