TASK 2 – WRITING PRODUCTION

PRESENTED BY:
FABIAN DARIO ORTEGA MONCADA
C.C: 1094166507

PRESENTED TO:
TUTORA: LAURA ISABEL SUAREZ

GROUP: 900003A_764

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OPEN AND DISTANCE - UNAD

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES
PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM
ENGLISH B1
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
4. Read the following questions and answer them in the forum:
QUESTIONS
WORK:

 What is your job?

-I work in the Colombian National Police

 Where do you work? Describe your place of work.

-I work in a police station in a rural sector in the town of San Cayetano Norte de
Santander Colombia

 What responsibilities do you have at work?

-my daily tasks are: patrol, take care that there are no robberies, murders, crimes

 Describe your activities at work. Do you like your

job? Yes, No. Why?
-Yes, my daily activities are: patrolling, touring the area, attending cases, requirements,
complying with scheduled activities

 Describe your skills and weaknesses for this job.

- Among my skills, I can describe my ability to dialogue to solve problems in the
community, timely attention to any emergency that arises, weaknesses, sometimes I feel
fragile in the face of situations that arise

 What was your first day at work like?

- It was a day of nerves, anxiety to know what work I was going to do, but above all it
was a day of great satisfaction

 Do you have or know about any superstition in

your business/work/office?
- not really, my superiors, colleagues and close people do not believe in superstitions

STUDY

 What do you study?

- psychology

 Where do you study?

- open and distance university

 what is your favorite subject?

- psychosocial action and family

 what are your responsibilities at university?

 -Comply with the times, points of each activity and course.
Efficiently use my knowledge at the Service of the People.
Make the university stand up

 Describe your activities at university. Do you like your career? yes, No. why?
- Of course I like and am passionate about studying psychology because that way I can
complement my work and help the community much more with all the problems

 Describe your skills and weaknesses for this job.

- my skills for my work are: authority and attention to the community
my weaknesses: a little impatience

5. Check your classmates’ answers and make 2 comments about their work. Include
information that needs to be considered, point out mistakes.
A comment is not to write a compliment, not just saying “good work”, this won’t be
graded as a comment.
Step 2 – Collaborative activity
2.1. Go to any job search webpage and each student
looks for one job advertisement related to his/her field of
interest and publish them in the forum.

The job advertisement must include:

Position: Entry Level Sales
Salary: $ 23.0000
Responsibilities: - Expand business and establish new customers while
interacting with existing customers to increase sales of
our products and/or services.
 - Call on and maintain relationships with established and
prospective commercial accounts.
- Keep customers informed about available services,
supplies, prices and new products.
- Provide information to customers on available utility
incentives and program details.
- Prepare and present proposals that recommend energy
conservation measures, provide customer costs and
incentives, and then sell the value proposition to the
customer.
- Maintain strong ongoing communications with
customers to assure customer satisfaction.
Qualifications/Skills - Excellent communication skills; both written and
needed: verbal; in person and on the phone.
- Working in a team environment to help motivate
others.
- A hungry desire to work in an Outside Sales position.
- Having a professionally strong presence to work with
key decisions makers (C-level corporate managers).
- Ready to invest time and hard work to be a part of a
leading energy efficiency company.
- BS/BA in Business administration or related field
preferred.
- A valid driver's license.
Company Paradigm Partners (MA)
information: Industry: Energy
Size: 1 to 50 employees
Sector: Oil, Gas, Energy & Utilities
Location: 2 Richdale Ave. Somerville, MA, US, 02145
 NUMBER 2 OPTIONAL

Position: language and communication

-They prepare, read, and translate letters and
other documents, and are responsible for making
and receiving telephone calls and e-mail inquiries,
as well as serving visitors.

-They may need to take notes in meetings and

interpret at conferences. They also take care of
other secretarial functions, for example, organizing
meetings and paperwork for the trip of a manager
Responsibilities: or director.

-The time a secretary spends using a foreign

language depends on the type of company they
work for and their position within the company.
Undersecretaries could spend much of their time
working in their own language.

-Her general secretarial duties include answering

routine inquiries, taking messages, word
processing, filing documents, making photocopies,
and keeping an appointment schedule.

-If clients or international colleagues visit the

company, the general secretary must receive them
 and take care of the modalities of their stay,
including hotel reservations and other travel
details.

Qualifications/ Focused, creative, easy to express himself, good

skills needes: Communicator.
Company Sutherland global services
information:

Locatión: All of colombia

You can use any job search application you want. Here you find some options:
www.glassdoor.com https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm or job listor
https://www.joblistor.com/, Career builder https://www.careerbuilder.com/
2.2. The group chooses only one of the job advertisements published.
2.3. The group writes a cover letter or an email job application for this position. Each student
must complete one paragraph.
first section
contact information, employer contact information, salutation
BODY OF COVER LETTER
 which job you´reapplying for (include the job titlein your opening paragrapf)
 how you leaqred about the job (and a referral if you have one)
 why you are qualifed for the job (be specific)
 what you have to offer the employer, and why you want to work at this specific company
(match your skills to the job descripion, and read up on the organization´s mission,
values and goals to metion in your letter)
 COVER LETTER

Sutherland global services,

Jhon Castillo company manager
Regards.
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Applied to work to be language and communication.

I find out about the job, through an advertisement on an employment page, if I consider that I
am qualified and have the necessary tools to perform the functions of this position.
I have to offer the company the knowledge acquired in my professional career as a bilingual
graduate, I want to be part of this organization, because I consider myself to be a responsible,
creative, innovative person, with good communication and most importantly, with the desire to
offer my knowledge but also with the intention of improving and learning new things in favor of
my career as an employee in your company.
Observing the mission and other information about your company, I find your goals very
interesting and where you want to go, providing a good accompaniment on the subject of
bilingual language.
I thank you, Mr. Manager, giving me the opportunity to work in your company and thus be able
to give my best, knowing that you will place my trust in this position.
Any information you can contact me through the phone number 3206789900 or email
joserey@gmail.com.
Very respectfully, sincerely

_____JOSE REY______________________

FINAL SECTION
 thank the employer fot being considered for the job
 how you will follow up how the recipient can get in touch with you.

Complimentary Close
 Respectfully yours,
Signature
www.cover-letter-now.com, The balanced careers
2.4. Organize the activity in a PDF document with all the evidences from individual
and collaborative steps and upload it through the Evaluation Environment.

To develop this activity, consider:

At Initial Information Environment, you must: Check the

agenda for the initial and final dates.

At Evaluation Environment, you must: Upload your final document.

At Learning Environment, you must: Enter to the E book/Online
English contents and study the topics for Unit 1 in Module 1 & 2 &
Unit 2 in Module 3 & 4.

Individual work evidences:

The individual evidences to submit are:

• The screenshots from the Ebook
• The answers to the questions proposed in the forum.
Collaborative work evidences

The groupal work evidences to submit are: PDF document with all
the evidences from the individual and collaborative steps.
3. General guidelines for the development of the evidence to
submit

For evidence developed Group - Collaborative, consider the

following guidelines
• Every member of the group must participate with
academic’s contributions in the activity development.
• Every group must choose a member (just one) who is the one
in charge to submit the required paperwork in the space
assigned by the teacher in charge.
• Before delivering the requested product, all the requirements
indicated in this activity guide must be checked.
• Only the members of the group that have participated with
contributions during the time earmarked for the activity must
be included as authors of the submitted work.

Take into account that all individual or group written work must fulfill
with the orthographic rules and presentation conditions that have
been defined.

Concerning the use of references, consider that the requested work in

this activity must fulfil with the standards APA
In any case, the standards of reference must be complied. Academic
plagiarism must be avoided. Students can support the written products
by using the Turnitin tool found on the virtual campus.

Consider that in the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, it is considered as offenses that undermine the academic order,
among others, the following: literal e) “Plagiarism, that is, submitting
as of its own authorship the all or part of a work, document or
invention made by another person.
It also implies the use of quotes or false references, or proposing
quotes where there is no match between it and the reference and
literal f: “Reproducing or copying for profit, educational materials or
results of research products, which have intellectual rights reserved
for the University”.

The academic sanctions the student will face are the following:

a) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in the respective

academic work or evaluation, the grade that will be imposed will be
zero points without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
b) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in the academic
work whatever its nature, the qualification that will be imposed
will be zero points, without prejudice to the corresponding
disciplinary sanction.
c) Evaluation rubric Format
Type of the activity: Group - Collaborative
Evaluation moment: Intermediate at Unit 1
Activity higher score: 90 points

High level:
The final document contains the cover letter organized in
First evaluation paragraphs following the order given and with a coherent
standard structure.
Formal assessment If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
Points
Paragraphs in the
cover letter follow Medium level:
the order given and The cover letter doesn’t have the paragraphs suggested and/or
the text is written doesn’t follow the order given and the writing doesn’t have a
following a coherent coherent structure.
structure. If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
Points
This standard
represents 15% Low level
score of the The student did not participate in the activity/ The student did
activity not send the cover letter.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.

Second evaluation High level:

standard The sentences and statements answer properly and coherently
Formal assessment the questions given. The number of answers correspond to the
number of questions proposed.
Statements answer If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
the proposed Points
questions using the
appropriate Medium level:
structure of the The sentences do not answer the questions given and/or do not
language. have the appropriate structure. The number of answers do not
correspond to the number of questions proposed.
This standard If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
represents 15% Points
score of the
activity Low level
 The student did not participate in the activity/ The student did
not send the answers to the questions.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
High level:
Participations are relevant, articulated and contribute to the
Third evaluation
construction of the cover letter. The contributions are posted
standard
according to the schedule.
Participation
If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
Assessment
Points
The student
Medium level:
provides clear and
There is minimum participation in the writing forum and/or the
useful input for the
comments made do not help in the construction of the cover
group to structure
letter.
the text.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
Points
This standard
represents 15%
Low level
score of the
The student didn’t participate at all in the forum.
activity
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
 High level:
The student sends all the answers in the forum and the comments
Fourth evaluation
made to the classmates are clear, articulated and contribute to
standard
the improvement of them. The contributions are posted according
Participation
to the schedule.
Assessment
If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15

The student answers Points

the given questions
Medium level:
in the forum and
There is minimum participation in the forum. The student didn’t
comments on
answer the questions and/or the comments made do not help the
his/her partner's
classmates to improve their work.
ideas.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
Points
This standard
represents 15%
Low level
score of the
The student didn’t send the answers to the questions in the
activity
forum and didn’t comment on the classmates’ work.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
 High level:
The sentences follow the grammatical rules and the structure of
the language, with little or no error spelling mistakes and the
Fifth evaluation message is clearly understood.

standard If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
Content assessment Points

Medium level:
The student makes Some of the sentences do not have the appropriate structure
no errors in spelling and do not follow the grammatical rules. There are some error
that distract the spelling mistakes but they do not distract the reader from the
reader from the content.
content. If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
Points
This standard
represents 15% Low level
The student does not answer the questions. The answers do
score of the not
activity have the appropriate structure and do not follow the
grammatical rules. There are many error spelling mistakes
making the message difficult to understand.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.
High level:
The student uses the grammatical topics and follows the
 adequate structure and vocabulary proposed in the units of
Sixth evaluation the
standard course.
Content Assessment If your work is at this level, you will get from 10 points to 15
Points
The student uses
grammar structures Medium level:
and vocabulary The student uses the appropriate grammatical topics but with
appropriate for the some mistakes in structure. The vocabulary is poor or do not
units. use the vocabulary proposed in the unit.
If your work is at this level, you will get from 5 points to 10
This standard Points
represents 15%
score of the Low level
activity The student didn’t participate of the activity.
If your work is at this level, you will get 0 points.