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Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubrics - Task 5 - Final Paper

1. General Description of the Course

School or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional

Academic Field Formación disciplinar

Course Name Academic Writing

Course Code 551016
Course Type Metodológico Retake Exam Yes ☐ No ☒
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of 2
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation Final
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☐ ☒
Moment: Units 1, 2, 3
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
125
Environment
Starting Date of the Activity: Deadline of the Activity:
December 1st, 2020 December 14th, 2020
Competences to Develop:
- Students identify the particular characteristics of Academic
Writing and apply their theoretical and practical knowledge of
different educational assignments.
- Students recognize the importance of actively participating in
course discussions by asking questions and responding with
clear arguments and foundations.
- Students identify and practice writing strategies and
methodologies that can turn into theoretical and practical
foundation that they will be able to use once they become
teachers.
- Students easily characterize, name, discuss, and write the
formalities and specifications of writing.
- Students can write clear, detailed texts, essays or reports,
 passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against
a particular point of view.
- Students are to propose different alternatives for improving their
own writing process.
- Students recognize the need of using new technologies
(searching for information in databases, hypertexts, etc.) when
supporting points of view about a topic.
- Students recognize the importance of using target language
reference sources to find, understand and if necessary, convey
new information.
Topics to Develop:

Unit 1 - Preparing to Write

Unit 2 - The Drafting Process
Unit 3 - Revising and Editing
Step, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop:

Step 1: Choosing
Step 2: Prewriting Strategy
Step 3: Outlining and Drafting
Step 4: Revising and Editing
Step 5: Publishing
Activities to Develop:

Step 1: Choosing
Remember the topic you chose in Task 2. Post it again in the forum so
that no topics are repeated for this final task.

Step 2: Prewriting Strategy

This time, you will use the prewriting strategy named Clustering to
come out with as many ideas as possible about the chosen topic.
Remember to consider your Thesis Statement and your three sub-
topics while doing the prewriting strategy.

Step 3: Outlining and Drafting

Outline your topic the way we did in Task 3 and write a first draft with
5 paragraphs total on your chosen topic and post both your outline
and draft in the forum.

Step 4: Revising and Editing

Used the Checklist from Task 4 to evaluate your own essay, revise it
and edit it. Rewrite your draft to have a clean copy of your essay.

Step 5: Publishing
Send on your individual Steps 1, 2, 3 and 4 on a PDF File to the
Monitoring and Evaluation Environment.
Environments for
Collaborative Learning Environment
the Development of
Monitoring and Evaluation Environment
the Activity
Individual:

Document named:
Task 5 - Group X – Student´s Name.pdf

The document must include:

1. Cover Page
2. Table of Contents
Products to Be 3. Cover Letter
Submitted by 4. Screenshot of Step 1
Students 5. Image of your Clustering
6. Draft of your Essay
7. Checklist
8. Clean Copy of revised and edited essay
9. References

Collaborative:

None

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Planning of
Activities for the
N/A
Development of
Collaborative Work
Roles to Be
Performed by the
N/A
Student in the
Collaborative Group
Roles and Duties for N/A
the Submission of
Products by
Students
All references considered for this activity have
References
to be cited using APA Style
Students must be aware of the risks and
penalties in case of plagiarism.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the

actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e)
"Plagiarism is to present as your own work all
or part of a written report, task or document
of invention carried out by another person. It
also implies the use of citations or lack of
references, or it includes citations where there
is no match between these and the reference"
and paragraph f) " To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved
for the University ". (Acuerdo 029 - 13 De
Diciembre de 2013, Artículo 99)
Plagiarism Policy
The academic penalties that the student will
face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in

the academic work or evaluation, the score
obtained will be zero (0.0) without any
disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic
work of any nature, the score obtained will be
zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures
being derived.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks,

see the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved
from http://www.bibme.org/citation-
guide/apa/
 4. Evaluation Rubric
Evaluation Rubric
Task 6 - Final Exam
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☐
Type: Activity
Evaluation Final
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☐ ☒
Moment Units 1, 2, 3
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
There is evidence
through There is evidence
screenshot that through
There is no
the student chose screenshot that
evidence through
once more 1 of the student chose
screenshot that
Step 1: the provided 1 of the provided
the student chose 5 points
Choosing topics and shared topics but shared
1 of the provided
it in the forum on it in the forum too
topics.
time so that no late (3 days prior
one else could to the deadline).
repeat it.
(up to 5 points) (up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)
There’s detailed
There’s little to no
evidence showing
time spent
time spent
creating the No image of
creating the
Clustering, prewriting
Step 2: Clustering,
organizing and strategy is sent
Prewriting organizing and 15 points
writing out ideas for evaluation.
Strategy writing out ideas
for this piece of
for this piece of
writing.
writing.
(up to 15
(up to 7 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Step 3: Student shares Student shares No outline and/or 25 points
Outlining outline and draft outline and draft drafting is sent
and Drafting in the forum. in the forum. for evaluation.
Both are However, they
complete; they are incomplete;
clearly include they include
 ideas that were limited ideas from
brainstormed and the prewriting
organized during strategy. There
prewriting. There are not 5
are 5 paragraphs paragraphs total
total. in the draft.
(up to 25 (up to 15
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Step 4: The student The student The student 60 points
Revising and demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates a
Editing clear evidence of some ability to lack of ability to
an ability to revise. The revise in a
revise. The student obtains substantial way.
student obtains and incorporates Whatever revision
and incorporates some comments. has been done
a lot of The student has not been
comments. The makes some sufficient to
student makes revisions. The improve the
revisions above student content, focus,
and beyond what reorganizes structure, clarity,
is suggested. The presentation of and coherence of
student adds new evidence an earlier draft.
material, deleting providing some Revision is limited
weak or irrelevant improved to sections of the
material and transitions that essay and
substituting more keep the focus demonstrate a
relevant material clear, reworking lack of awareness
for less relevant the introduction of how even small
material. The or conclusion and changes can
student rewrites rewriting affect the entire
individual individual paper.
sentences sentences
(changing syntax (attempting to
for clarity and add clarity and
variety, re- variety).
ordering main
and subordinate
clauses, adding
phrases, cutting
excess, etc.)
 (up to 60 (up to 40
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Student sends a Student sends an
complete PDF file incomplete file for
Student did not
for evaluation evaluation that
Step 5: send any file for
that includes all does not include
Publishing evaluation. 20 points
required all required
information. information.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Final Score 125