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 Collaborati Number

☐ ☒ 6
activity: al ve of weeks
Moment of Intermedia
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: te, 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

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
Collaborative Learning
t for the
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
deliver by
content 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

activities for follows:
the 1. Salutation and presentation
development 2. Contribution for writing practice
of 3. Contribution for chart
collaborative 4. Contribution for writing the text
work 5. Contribution to turn in the final PDF document
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.
Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
participants of the collaborative group in order to
Roles and
consolidate the final paper; including only those who
responsibiliti
took part of the whole process.
es for the
delivery of
Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process
products
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 paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
Plagiarism profit, educational resources or results of research
policy 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.ph
p?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
participations There is
are relevant, minimum
articulated participation in
and contribute the writing
Participatio to the forum, besides it There is not
n construction of neither meets forum
30
& the final the participation at
interaction document. requirements of all.
The the guide and
contributions schedule nor the
are posted netiquette
according to standards.
the schedule.
 (Up to 30 (Up to 18 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The written
The proper
outcome The grammatical
use of
contains some structures used
grammar
grammatical are simple, they
shows a good
inconsistencies do not match
Use of knowledge of
and the the difficulty
grammar the structures 20
simplicity of the level according
links in the
sentences show to the contents
development
difficulties in the of the course
of contents
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
making use of
main point of do not have a
logical
view is clear objective.
connectors.
understandable.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Although the
The final vocabulary used
document in the final The vocabulary
contains wide document is very limited
variety of matches the and does not
words which difficulty level match the
Vocabulary 15
are used according to the difficulty level
coherently, contents of the according to the
with course, it is contents of the
appropriate limited and has course
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