ADAMSON UNIVERISTY

Senior High School Earth Science

Performance Task 2.2: Rocks and Minerals (Academic Article)

Goal: Write an academic article in which you discuss facts and relevant information about the
mineral resources of the Philippines.
Role: You are an academic article writer who must write and publish an informative article in a
prestigious journal about current/trending topics and/or issues concerning Philippine mineral
resources, utilization, exploitation, and so on.
Audience: Citizens of the Philippines are the intended audience/readers.
Situation: You and your team are academic article writers who have been asked to write and
publish an academic article about the Philippines' mineral resources. You must select a relevant
topic (e.g., mineral resource controversies, laws/policies, challenges, current issues, etc.) with
the goal of assisting readers in learning more about the subject by presenting a wealth of
interesting and accurate information.
Product: An academic article to be published in the first edition of journal.
Standards: The academic article should (refer to the rubric given below):

Points Earned
Criteria 4 3 2 1 0 Points
Content and Information (X4)
The article The article The article has The article No output.
contains a contains fair amount of contains few
wealth of good amount information and information and
information of attempts to fails to does not
and skillfully information develop the successfully
develops the and topic by using develop the
Information
topic by develops the relevant details, topic with
and
providing topic by facts, and/or relevant
Explanation
relevant using other information.
details and relevant information.
facts to details, facts,
explain the and/or other
general information.
concepts
stated.
Successfully Writes the Writes the article Fails to write the No output.
writes the article based based on some article based on
article based on true, true, accurate, true, accurate,
Accuracy and only on true, accurate, and relevant and relevant
Relevance accurate, and relevant information. facts and
relevant facts facts and information.
and information.
information.
Completeness and Organization (X3)
The article The article The article The article has No output.
contains contains at contains at least only one of the
introduction, least three two of the necessary parts;
body, necessary necessary parts. includes vague
conclusion and parts. conclusion.
Completeness references
that are well
elaborated.
 Skillfully Writes the Writes the article Writes the article No output.
writes the article in an in fairly ordered without proper
article in a orderly, and quite order/
very orderly, coherent coherent organization and
coherent manner with manner with fair transition
manner with good transitions between ideas/
Organization successful transitions between ideas/ sentences/
transitions between sentences/ paragraphs
between ideas/ paragraphs
ideas/ sentences/
sentences/ paragraphs.
paragraphs.

Mechanics of Writing (X2)

Uses correct, Uses correct Uses correct Fails to use No output.
varied sentence sentence correct, varied
sentence structure, structure with sentence
structure, and and uses few errors, and structure, and
uses precise precise uses language uses precise
language and language and vocabulary language and
vocabulary in and that fairly vocabulary in a
a way that vocabulary addresses the way that
addresses the in a way that complexity of addresses the
Grammar and
complexity of addresses the topic that complexity of
Language
the topic that the makes it quite the topic that
makes it very complexity of easy to makes it very
easy to the topic that understand. Few easy to
understand. makes it grammatical understand.
There are no easy to errors. Many
grammatical understand. grammatical
errors. Very few errors.
grammatical
errors.

Successfully Indicates 4-5 Cites 2-3 Cites 1 No output.

indicates all credible credible credible
the resources resources in resources in resources in
used in APA APA format. APA format. APA format.
Citation format. Uses
more than 5
credible
resources.

Timeliness The group The group The group The group The group
submitted submitted submitted 3-4 submitted 5-6 submitted 1
Before or on 1-2 day/s after days after the days after the Week after
the the end date. end date. end date. the end date.
end date.