275 Writing B1

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD
Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL

Programa: UNAD English
Curso: English B1 Intermediate
Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
WRITING 2
ENGLISH B1 INTERMEDIATE
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
Review the writing skill by creating a tale.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
 Review general aspects about writing: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation,

coherence and cohesion.
 Apply the concepts from units 1-2-3 to create literature.
TOPICS TO CHECK:
simple present, modals, comparatives, adverbs, present perfect,

Grammar indirect speech.
Vocabulary Adjectives, places, professions, weather.
General aspects: In this forum you will create a short tale, attending different criterias to do the
creative exercise.
Learning strategy: task based learning.
Awaited product: PDF file by group (5 tales, 5 pages).
Evaluative weight: 75 points

Campo de formación: Formación para el Trabajo y Desarrollo Humano.
Tipo de curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Read the guide.

2. Participated in the forum at least 3 times.
3. Participate in the forum without attaching documents.
4. Upload the final activity in a PDF file by group.
ACTIVITIES
1st Part
In this first stage, you will read an article with some suggestions to create a story as base to do your
own creation.
5 Steps to Write a Short Story

by Joe Bunting
How do you write a short story? How is writing a short story different than writing a
novel?
These are tough questions to answer because there are as many types of short stories as
there are types of novels. There are long short stories, short short stories, simple short
stories, and complex short stories.
Still, if you want to write a short story, here are five steps to help you get started:
1. Read Short Stories
Real writers read, and as Stephen King said, “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t
have time to write.”
If you’ve never read a short story, you’re going to have a difficult time writing one. Even if
you’ve read hundreds of stories, studying one or two closely will help improve your
understanding of the short story form.
“If you’ve never read a short story, you’re going to have a difficult time writing one.
2. Summarize Your Short Story
Before you begin writing, try a screenwriting trick known as loglines. A logline is a one
sentence summary of your short story, its core, its essence. For example, here’s a logline
for “A Rose de
Campo For Emily” byFormación
formación: William Faulkner: Logline:
para el Trabajo A lonely, Humano.
y Desarrollo Southern woman is found
deadTipo
and de
decaying in her home after being abandoned by her lover.
curso: Metodológico.
Créditos: Tres (3)
The formula is your character + a descriptor (e.g. lonely, Southern woman) followed by an
event (e.g. found dead) followed by a conflict (abandoned by her lover).This will help you
understand what your story is about.
3. Write Your Short Story
Some guides suggest focussing on writing a catchy first paragraph first, but while that’s
important, it puts a lot of pressure on you when you’re first getting started writing your
short story.
Instead, just write. Just put pen to paper. Don’t worry about what comes out. It’s not
important. You just need to get your short story started.
You will need to write 50 to 100 percent more words than will end up in the final draft of
your short story. That means if you’re trying to write a 5,000 word short story, you might
need to write 10,000 words total in your first draft. Why?
Your job is less to write words than to pick the best words. To get a good short story, you
will have to cut out a lot of mediocre writing.
4. Rewrite and Edit
All good writing is rewriting.
After you write your first draft, you need to start cutting, rewriting, and editing your short
story. This is the hardest part of writing a short story, and can feel like wading through a
swamp or climbing through a very tight cave. However, don’t give up now. You’re almost
there.
5. Submit!
Before you submit your short story, make sure you’ve read it aloud several times to find
typos and grammatical errors and that you’ve formatted it according to standard
manuscript format.
Review: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/telltale.html
2nd Part
In this stage,de
Campo theformación:
student should write apara
Formación shorteltale. Eachy student
Trabajo is going
Desarrollo to share the tale in the
Humano.
forumTipo
anddefinally the Metodológico.
curso: group will consolidate just one file with the 5 tales to upload in the monitoring
Créditos: Tres
and Evaluation (3)
environment.
RÚBRICA DE EVALUACIÓN
ITEM A Máximo
VALORACIÓN BAJA VALORACIÓN MEDIA VALORACIÓN ALTA
EVALUAR Puntaje
El estudiante produjo el texto El estudiante produjo el
base para el desarrollo de la texto base para el
actividad, pero presenta desarrollo de la actividad
evidentes errores en la con un buen nivel den la
El estudiante no produjo
construcción gramatical. La construcción gramatical. El
el texto base para el
Producción organización de las ideas no es texto se presenta como una
desarrollo de la actividad. 40
escrita lógica, se presentan secuencia lógica y
incoherencias y/o Se evidencia coherente que atiende el
(0 puntos)
un vocabulario reducido según manejo del vocabulario
lo propuesto en las unidades. visto.
(10 puntos) (20 puntos)

La producción escrita da
Su producción escrita da
cuanta de una excelente
No se evidencia lectura cuenta de una comprensión y
comprensión y análisis del
Comprensión del texto base. análisis, muy básicos, del texto 10
texto propuesto como base
(0 puntos) base.
para la creación.
(5 puntos)
(10 puntos)
Realizó un excelente
Se realizó el ejercicio de
trabajo analizando y
El estudiante no analizo ni análisis y realimentación del
realimentando el trabajo de
realimentó el trabajo de trabajo de algún compañero,
alguno de sus compañeros,
alguno de sus sin embargo, los comentarios
Realimentación sus comentarios son de 10
compañeros. carecen de calidad y
calidad en forma y fondo.
profundidad.
(0 puntos)
(10 puntos)
(5 puntos)
La producción escrita
Se realizó una propuesta muy
evidencia un trabajo
No hubo entrega del superficial que no da cuenta de
comprometido que se
Propuesta. trabajo. las características estéticas del 15
refleja en una creación
(0 puntos) cuento.
estética interesante.
(5 puntos)
(15 puntos)
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y A DISTANCIA – UNAD

Instituto Virtual de Lenguas INVIL

Review the writing skill by creating a tale.

 Review general aspects about writing: vocabulary, grammar, punctuation,

simple present, modals, comparatives, adverbs, present perfect,

Vocabulary Adjectives, places, professions, weather.

Learning strategy: task based learning.

Awaited product: PDF file by group (5 tales, 5 pages).

Evaluative weight: 75 points

1. Read the guide.

5 Steps to Write a Short Story

(10 puntos) (20 puntos)

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