EP004 - Study Tasks for Assessment Two
Please note: The tasks are design for you to develop
background knowledge and to practice skills. You will need to show your
understanding and APPLY what you have learnt to different situations. These
are not practise tasks for every question – it is only a guide. YOU NEED TO
ORGANISE YOUR OWN REVIEW OF WORK TOO.
1.
Get
your copy of the EP003 essay you handed in. Mark your own in text referencing
by referring to your Reference Guide. Read the explanations and examples in
your guide carefully. (if you don’t have a copy then write a direct quote from
an article you have search and use in-text referencing)
2.
Analyse
this topic question:
In the last 20 years, rates of divorce have risen
significantly in Western countries. Critically analyse some of the different
explanations given for this phenomenon.
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3.
What
are the most relevant databases you would use for the following topics:
a.
Stress
and heart disease.
b.
Advertising
and business development
c.
Television
and student concentration in classrooms.
4.
What
is the quickest way you can find the databases you want.
5.
Search
any of the topics above and choose the most relevant article.
a.
How
did you do this?
b.
Why is
the article you chose relevant?
c.
Can
you refine your searches?
6.
Use
the Reference guide to practice end text referencing using the above articles,
then mark you own using the reference guide.
7.
Search
for ebooks using the topics above. How do you choose the most relevant ebook?
8.
Practise
writing the end text references using the above ebooks you found.
9.
What
is a paraphrase?
10.
Make a
checklist that will help you paraphrase effectively.
Paraphrasing: Rubinstein and Carballero stress that the female role models of the 1920s would closer represent current women’s average weight, compared to the dangerously underweight female media representatives of today. (Rubinstein, Carballero, 2000 P.1569).
ReplyDeleteOriginal text:Wecompiled data on weight and height of winners of the Miss America Pageant, from 1922 to 1999, obtained from
the Miss America Archives.4Thepageantwasnot held from 1927-1933, and data from a few other years are unavailable.Wedetermined the body mass index (BMI), calculated as weight in kilograms
divided by the square of height in meters, for each winner, and fit the BMI data to a linear regression model. We found a significant time-dependent decline in BMI (P,.0001), as shown in the FIGURE. In the 1920s, concontestants
had BMIs within the range that is now considered normal(between 20 and 25).5 But the decline in BMI over the years has put an increasing number of winners in the range of undernutrition
(defined by the World Health Organization as
BMI,18.5),5 with some having a BMI as low as 16.9.
Zoe-asha Williams
Hi Zoe,
ReplyDeleteThe paraphrase is excellent. Just with referencing: you have mentioned the authors in your paraphrase so the date would go after their names in brackets. E.G. Rubinstein and Carballero (1569) stress that ....etc. then the page number goes at the end of the paraphrase.