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Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academica and Research Vice-Rector


Activity 3 : Writing Assignment – Guide & Rubric

• 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
credits

• Description of the activity

Number of
Type of activity: Individual Collaborative
weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting Final
evaluation: unidad:
Delivery
environment:
Evaluative score: 95 points
Monitoring and
evaluation
Closing date: August
Starting date: June 28th, 2018
8th, 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!

Environments
to its
Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and Evaluation
development

Individual:
Part 1: Send 10 sentences using the modal verbs of
obligation and advice.

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.

Products to
submit by th
students

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

Planning • Each student must choose a role according to his


activities to abilities and competences and tell it to his
develop the partners.
collaborative • To read the unit contents taking into account the
work references because they support the activities.
• Each student must participate active and
thoughfully in collaborative activities.
• To share the appropriate contributions on time
for each activity.
• 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 the Reviewer
student in the Evaluaror
collaboative Submissions
group Alerts
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 established by
the teacher.

Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets


Roles and
the criteria established by the rubric. The
responsibilities
evaluator must inform the group about any
to produce the
corrections or adjustments regarding the quality of
submitions by
the document.
the students

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.

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
Plagiarism
we rely on the work of others, academic honesty
policy
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

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