Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vice President for Academic Issues and Research

Course: English IV
Code: 90170
Activity guide and evaluation rubric – Task 2: Writing
Assignment - Production

1. Activity description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 120 grades
The activity starts on:
The activity ends on: Sunday, 28th
Monday, 15th of February of
of March of 2021
2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following
learning outcomes:

The student will be able to talk about past and future events, give
recommendations and express his/her opinion using “wish” and “hope”,
as well as conditionals.
The activity consists of:

Write clear, detailed text related to the topic:

Write a letter to United Nations Secretary-General1;

Talk about Effects of technology on the environment;
Talk about past events;
Use “If clauses” to express future meaning;
Use “Wish” to express hypothetical situations;
Give advice and recommendations.

1The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United
Nations. The Secretary-General serves as the chief administrative officer of the United Nations.
 Dear Student,
You must take into account three aspects:

➢ Write a letter to the UN Secretary-General:

a) Express your opinion on the positive or negative effects of
technology on the environment;
b) Give recommendations on what you would improve or
change.

Dear student,
✓ You will develop this task in the Writing forum.
✓ At the end of this task, you will collect all the parts in a final
document.
✓ Follow each step; post all the activities in the forum and get
feedback from your partners and tutor.
✓ The final product must be sent individually.

Stage 1: Technology and its effects on environment (1st week)

Write about technological advancement and the effect on the

ecosystem.
 - Text length: 100 words
- Write about: What do you think are negative or positive effects
of technology on the environment? How did it affect to Climate
Change in the last decades? Did it cause environmental
pollution or natural resources scarcity?
- You can use the following text as an example:

Stage 2: Technology and global warming (2nd week)

Write a paragraph answering this question: What do you think will

happen if current trends of technology development and consumerism
continue? You can use the following vocabulary for the text:

According to… I consider… global warming… environmental

pollution… the impact of… degradation of lands… economic
growth… poverty… developing countries… population growth…
rapid urbanization… natural resources scarcity… If current trends
continue… rising levels of consumption… etc…

Stage 3: What can be done? (3rd week)

 Write your advice on how we can contribute to the improvement of
current environmental crisis. Use the following vocabulary for the
text:

Governments… United Nations (UN)… measures… take actions…

sustainable development… policies… climate policy… eco-friendly
technology… it is necessary… I recommend… I would… etc…

Stage 4: Write a letter (4th week)

According to the previous writing exercises, you will design a formal

letter addressed to the UN Secretary-Executive (200 words) including
the following steps:

Use the following tool: https://goo.gl/wxXAZD

Example: https://goo.gl/AhQjia
For the development of the activity consider that:
In the Initial Information Environment, you must: Check the Agenda.
In the Learning Environment, you must: Practice Unit 1 and develop
the writing task.
In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Submit the final work in the
Task 2 - Writing Assignment-Production - Evaluation rubric and activity
submission which is a Turnitin tool. Turnitin is a computer tool that
identifies the level of similarity of documents, contributes to the
development of writing processes and encourages critical thinking and
autonomous learning.
Evidences of Collaborative work:
The individual evidences to submit are:
Final document in PDF format.
2. General guidelines for the development of evidences to submit

For Collaborative evidences consider the following:

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions

in the development of the activity.
• Before submitting the requested product, students should check
that it meets all the requirements mentioned in this activity
guide.
Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products
must comply with the spelling rules and presentation conditions
defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this
activity must comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic
plagiarism. You can review your written products using the Turnitin
tool found in the virtual campus.

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)

The academic penalties students 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.
 3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 120 points
High level: Writes a note in the forum about technology and its
First evaluation
effects on the environment with a maximum of 70 words, using
criterion: Process
time markers from the unit.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
Stage 1:
and 20 points
Technology and
its effects on
Average level: Shows imprecise sentences with an inconsistent
environment
style; shows some lack of control in grammar and vocabulary.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
This criterion
and 10 points
represents 20
points of the total
Low level: Does not submit the activities from stage 1.
of 120 points of
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
the activity.
and 5 points
High level: Writes a paragraph about what will happen if current
Second evaluation
trends of technology development continue.
criterion: Content
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 20 points
Stage 2:
Technology and
Average level: Shows imprecise sentences with an inconsistent
global warming
style; shows some lack of control in grammar and vocabulary.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
This criterion
and 10 points
represents 20
points of the total
Low level: Does not submit the activities from stage 2.
of 120 points of
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
the activity.
and 5 points
Third evaluation High level: Writes complex sentences expressing opinion. Gives
criterion: recommendations on the comments of other group members.
Participation If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
and 20 points
Stage 3:
Expressing Average level: Shows imprecise sentences with an inconsistent
opinion style; shows some lack of control in grammar and vocabulary.
 If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
This criterion and 10 points
represents 20
points of the total Low level: Does not submit the activities from stage 3.
of 120 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
the activity. and 5 points
High level: Designs the letter to UN Secretary-General; The final
product is a complete evidence of the process developed in the
forum; The final product has the three stages of the writing
Fourth evaluation
exercise.
criterion:
If your work is at this level, you can get between 30 points
Form
and 60 points
Stage 4: Design of
Average level: Designs the letter to UN Secretary-General;
final product
Develops some of the activities from the stage 1 to 3; The final
product does not show a complete evidence of the process
This criterion
developed in the forum.
represents 60
If your work is at this level, you can get between 10 points
points of the total
and 30 points
of 120 points of
the activity.
Low level: Does not design the letter to UN Secretary-General.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 10 points