climate change and health;

overweight and obesity;

youth mental health; vaping;

loneliness;

substance abuse.Sample Page

Now describe a policy, program or project (including a research project) that ought to be used to address this issue. You can select an existing policy, program or project, one that is already in place, and simply justify it. Justify your position on the basis of current evidence and

justify it ethically, with reference to 1-3 values and/or concepts and/or theories drawn from public health ethics and/or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worldviews and/or critical sociology.

This assessment is an opportunity to structure and plan your major essay and received detailed feedback from a marker.

Essentially you are going to give us the first 1/3rd of the final essay that you will hand in as your major assessment.

For the draft essay you are required to provide:

• A title
• A dot point summary (3-5 points) of the main arguments/theories/ concepts that will provide the overall structure for body of your essay
• An introduction to your chosen essay, including your thesis statement (approx. 250 words).
• For essays 1and 2, an overview of your policy, program or project (approx. 250 words)
• Some or all of the first part of your argument (up to 500 words)
• A bibliography

3. Gather your source material for your topic. You should have learned how to do this from your completed Library2Go module. You might like to use a synthesis grid to sort your information and help you identify connections to discuss within the body of your essay. These sources will make up your bibliography. A bibliography is a list of all the sources you used to generate your ideas about the topic, including those cited in your assignment as well as those you did not cite.

4. From your source materials, construct your working thesis statement. This is a clear statement of the position you plan to take and how you will defend this position in your essay. This will be no more than a few sentences long and it usually goes in your introduction.

5. Next plan the overall structure of the body of the essay. This involves synthesising your source materials to develop the main arguments which support your working thesis and ordering these arguments in the most effective way. There are detailed instructions for how to do this for each of the three essay topics – make sure you read this carefully before you begin!  This provides the dot point summary of the main arguments that you will include in your submission.

6. Once you have done the above tasks proceed to the actual writing. First write the introduction to your essay. A good introduction provides the reader with a general background and context of the topic, states the purpose of the essay and leads into your thesis statement.

Essay questions ,  briefly summarise the rationale for the policy or program that you are discussing, including a brief statement about the evidence on which the policy or program is based, and one to three values, concepts or theories that underpin it. Read the instructions linked above. Finally, you write approx 500 words of the first part of your argument (basically you are aiming to make one point in your argument in your main body: refer to the instructions for more details).

NB: You do not need to provide a conclusion! you are handing in an unfinished essay. But do make sure you have made your one point quite clearly.

We know that you will develop each of your main arguments further in  your major essay. This will occur as a result of the process of writing. Our aim with this assessment is in part to assist you in that work.

Some basic things: Yes, you can use the first person. Yes, you can use subheadings. Yes, you must be especially careful to use correct terminology in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and issues.

Yes, you must use formal citations and provide a bibliography, which is marked. Please use appropriate referencing where required in this task.A reference is required to acknowledge your use of any source, whether you use direct quotes, paraphrase, or the use of information or ideas (as long as these are not common knowledge e.g., the earth is round). There is no single referencing system that you are required to use, but you do need to use one, and to use it consistently and correctly.