Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English 2
Code: 90021

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 Writing your professional profile.

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 100 points
The activity starts on: Monday, February The activity ends on: Sunday, March 13,
21, 2022 2022
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

The student will be able to understand different types of text to answer some
questions according to this, and to write a text about the personal profile with
coherence, using the structures learned in the course that allows them better
learning.

The activity consists of:

The development of three steps to carry out, and share in the collaborative forum to
build a final task that the student has to send by the Evaluation environment.

Step 1: Reading comprehension exercise.

Go to the Learning Environment, and enter to E-book / Online Content (Contenido en
Linea) to develop the activities of the E-book. Practice the topic USE OF INFINITIVE
AND ADJECTIVES in the Module 3 and 4 of our E-book.

Image that labels the Online content found in Learning environment.

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Go to the text of Module 3. Topic 12, read this carefully, analyze the information
found in the text and answer the following questions:

Image that shows the Module 3. Topic 12 of E-book

a. Choose the sentence that represents the main idea and write this.
b. Write in three lines the thesis of the text and supporting examples that
sustenance this.
c. What does the phrase “Top-ranked” mean? Write your explanation.
d. What can be inferred from lines 11 and 12 when the text says “Finally, it is
important to highlight that living in the UK is probably one of the most multi-
cultural experiences one can ever have, and universities are no exception”.
e. Comparing the UK universities with Colombia universities, write some
experiences a foreign person can obtain here.

All the answers have to be shared in the collaborative forum.

Step 2: Writing an email about your professional experience.

The activity consists of a writing exercise where the student has to write a letter,
showing his/her professional experience in his/her area, according to he/she has
been working, giving an answer to the letter that has been sent from the company.
Read the situation presented to you and begin your exercise.

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Share your letter in the Collaborative forum.
Situation: You have presented an exam to apply for a job in a company in Medellín
and the result has been good. Now the company needs to know your complete profile
and to do an interview. So you have to read the letter that the company has sent to
you and give the answer to this.

From: Mara Ramirez, HR Officer

To: Alexander Perez

Subject: To know your profile and Invitation to interview at Sigma software.

Dear Alexander Perez,

Thank you for applying for the position of software engineer at Sigma software, you
carried out the exam and you had an excellent result. We are needing people in
different areas, so we need to know each profile. We would like to invite you for an
interview at our principal office in Medellín and to know your profile better.

Your interview is scheduled for Thursday 3 April, at 2 p.m. If this time or date is
inconvenient for you, please contact me as soon as possible to rearrange the
interview.

At the interview, you will meet our head of HR, Mr Luis Castilla, and our head of IT,
Ms Elsa Molina. They will be telling you more about the jobs and getting to know
you better. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions about the position
and the company, and to see the offices. The interview will last for about 60
minutes. Please bring two references with you for the interview.

But first is necessary you send us your professional profile, please write your
experiences.

Our offices are located in Business park, street 11#50 near Cambria Restaurant.
When you arrive, please ask for Mr. Adriana Perez at the reception.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

Mara Ramirez

HR Officer

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After reading the message, give the answer to this using the structure of a letter and
writing your professional profile. You have to write a summary first and then write
the experience.

Take into account the following recommendations and the example below:
a. Your online profile needs to be concise, engaging and convincing.
b. State a clear title/role under your name.
c. Your summary should be in short paragraphs.
d. Think about who you want to read your profile and write in an appropriate style
for them.
e. Your letter must have between 132 to 180 words.

Grammar application: Write your letter and your profile using infinitives and
adjectives. Study these topics before.
If you copy the text from any web page, your grade will not be good.

Give feedback to your partner: Read your partner's letter and his/her profile and
give your feedback to him/her. Say if the structure is good or not, what he/she can
improve, or if the letter presents mistakes.

Step 3: Organize your final task.

Go to Learning environment and download the template you find there as Appendix
1: Template final Task 2 – Writing your professional profile. Organize each
step of the activity and send the final task in a Word document by Evaluation
environment.

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Example of a Professional profile.

David Beddingfield - Digital Marketing Manager

Summary

Over the past six years I have held various roles in the field of digital marketing and
communication and currently lead a small team in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
(FMCG) sector. I have a proven track record of planning and implementing successful
digital marketing campaigns across a range of channels.

______________________________

Experience

Digital Marketing Manager

Krunch Ltd
Jan 2017 – Present

My role involves strategic focus on all areas of digital marketing within the company and
working closely with the main marketing and communications teams. I design and lead all
our digital marketing campaigns.

Digital Marketing Executive

Krunch Ltd
June 2014 – Dec 2016

I was responsible for overall social media strategy. I worked on many campaigns to drive
engagement with the customers of our breakfast cereals and bars to build brand loyalty. I
also led on three key product launches.

Digital Marketing Assistant

Food2Grab Ltd
Sept 2013 – May 2014

In this role I developed my existing knowledge and skills in the fields of social media and
consumer goods. I supported the design of multi-channel marketing campaigns to promote
brand awareness of our healthy snack range.

Taken from: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/intermediate-b1/a-

professional-profile

END OF THE TASK!

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For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: review the course agenda to work
within the established dates.

In the Learning Environment, you must: Study all the English contents found in
the Online content - English level II, to develop each step that you find in the
guide. Besides, the students find the Activities guide and evaluation rubric with
all the instructions to develop, the template to organize the final task and the task
2 forum where the students must socialize the development of each step indicated in
the guide. This is found as Appendix 1: Template final Task 2 – Writing your
professional profile.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: send the final Writing task, organized in a
template and in a Word document, with all the steps required in the guide and with
the cover page.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Step 1: Reading comprehension exercise.

a. Sentence that represents the main idea of the text.
b. Thesis of the text and supporting examples that sustenance this.
c. Explanation of the meaning of the phrase “Top-ranked”
d. Inference from lines 11 and 12 when the text says “Finally, it is important to
hightlight that living in the UK is probably one of the most multi-cultural
experiences one can ever have, and universities are no exception”.
e. Comparison between the UK universities with Colombia universities.
Screenshot of your participation in the collaborative forum.
Step 2: Writing an email about your professional experience.
Letter showing your professional experience using Infinitives and adjectives.
Organize all the steps in the template found in learning environment as
Appendix 1: Template final Task 2 – Writing your professional profile

Evidences of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

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2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following: The development of all the steps
required in the guide and the final task organized in a Word document given in
Evaluation environment

 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.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 100 points
First evaluation High level: The grammatical structures used in the text are
criterion: good used. They are according to the requirement in the guide.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 24 points
Grammatical and 30 points
structure.
Average level: The written production presents some mistakes
This criterion in the use of the grammatical structures nevertheless, some
represents 30 ideas give answers to the guide requirement.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 16 points
of 100 points of and 23 points
the activity.
Low level: The grammatical structures applied are simple or
present many mistakes with difficulties to understand the text.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 15 points
Second evaluation High level: The written production presents a good connection
criterion: of phrases and paragraph, using connectors. It looks as a
complete unit, the text is clear and complete.
Cohesion and If your work is at this level, you can get between 24 points
coherence. and 30 points

This criterion Average level: The text presents inconsistencies in the building
represents 30 and organization of some ideas, some parts are not clear
points of the total however, some message can be understandable.
of 100 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 16 points
the activity. and 23 points

Low level: The ideas and phrases presented in the text are not
well related, are in disorder or the text is not clear. The text is
not presented like the guide required.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 15 points

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Third evaluation High level: In the text is evident the correct use of vocabulary
criterion: worked in the course unit and according to what the guide
Vocabulary and requires.
spelling. If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
and 20 points

This criterion Average level: Although the vocabulary is according to the

represents 20 units, it is limited and presents some difficulties in the written of
points of the total some words.
of 100 points of
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
and 14 points

Low level: The vocabulary used in the text is poor and not
according to the units of the course.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 8 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The participations are relevant and according to
criterion: what the guide requires, they are on time. The final product is
well organized and given by the space signed for this.
Participation,
interaction and final If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
product. and 20 points

This criterion Average level:

represents 20 The participations are not relevant or are shorts. They are posted
points of the total for the last three days, there is no interaction. The final product
of 100 points of is incomplete or presents difficulties.
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 9 points
and 14 points

Low level: There wasn´t participation or the contributions are

not according to the guide requirement.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points

and 8 points