Nutrition and Health, S2 2015

Nutrition and Health, S2 2015 Nutrition Project Guide and Marking Rubric Due date: Sunday 27 September, 11:59PM From the Course Outline: General guidelines and topic: • You are to assess and critically analyse your diet and wider lifestyle behaviours in this project. • The focus is NUTRITION and you focus on the analysis/analyses of your nutrition habits. • You have to use evidence to support your statements! Especially peer-reviewed journal articles. We suggest that you use a minimum of 5 journal articles and 3 other reliable ‘grey literature’ sources such as government websites (this recommended number is different for each assignment). Remember that Week 3’s lecture and tutorial focused on scientific evidence, citing and referencing. Also - like with the other 2 assignments - you need to reference images. Don’t hyperlink images in this assignment (you are only allowed to hyperlink in the blog assignment) – instead, either list the image source (i.e. web address) below the image (you can use this resource to shorten long web links if you want to: http://tinyurl.com/) or ‘cite/reference’ the images as Sophia did in Week 3’s lecture using letters, e.g. [A]. If the image is your own, please state that in a caption beneath the image. • This assessment has an emphasis on learning outcome 3. • You can use some or all of the lifestyle measurement tools you used in tutorial classes T3-5 in Weeks 4-6 (e.g. 24hour recall of vegetable intake, food diary, IPAQ, DASS, etc.). You may also choose to use other lifestyle measurement tools (preferably those that are validated by evidence) not covered in classes. • You will submit a Word or pdf document via Turnitin/Moodle. • A suggested structure for your project is outlined below. The main section headings are mandatory (e.g. Background, Methods…), but you can decide what you include within each main section. Remember to keep the Marking Rubric on page 2 in mind, and to cite references throughout. o Title of your choice o Background: things that you could include: nutrition/lifestyle influences on health, types of nutrients/foods, determinants of (your) food and drink intake/wider lifestyle habits, what are guidelines for nutrition/physical activity, nutrition/lifestyle assessment methods: how, why, limitations? Nutrition Project Guide and Marking Rubric, page: 1 of 2 GENM0707 Nutrition and Health, S2 2015 o o o o o Methods: How you assessed your own nutrition/lifestyle habits. Include some or all details of your assessment activities in the tutorials, e.g. the 3-day food diary that you completed. With this food diary, you can estimate your daily intakes of energy in kJ and/or macro- or micronutrients that you are interested in. If you used an app to do your food diary, this information may have been calculated automatically, but if you recorded your food and drink intake on paper, then you can estimate nutrient intakes using database/s accessed via this website: http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science/monitoringnutrients/pages/default.aspx Results: of your nutrition/lifestyle assessments. Just outline the main aspects of your assessment/s. There is no need for all the detail and we don’t want any appendices. 24/8/15: YOU CAN NOW INCLUDE APPENDICES, E.G. APPENDIX 1, FOOD DIARY; ETC. Discussion: What, how and why do you eat and drink what you do? How does this compare to guidelines/the rest of the Australian population (if you are an international student, you can pick guidelines/food intake data from your home country)? Are guidelines accurate? How does your lifestyle influence your health? How does this affect your future? Word count: not including reference list, but yes – including citations and tables. Reference list Marking Rubric: This assignment is worth 30% of your overall GENM0707 grade. 0% Inadequate content, lacking relevant content, no focus on nutrition 1/5% or 2/10% Poor content, relevance, focus 2/5% or 4/10% Some good content, relevance, focus 3/5% or 6/10% Moderate content, relevance, focus 4/5% or 8/10% Good content, relevance, focus 5/5% or 10/10% Excellent content, all content provided relevant, focus is on nutrition Understanding 10% of your own nutrition (and wider lifestyle) behaviours: why do you do what you do and how does this relate to the rest of the population/guidelines? What effects do your behaviours have on your health? I.e. WHY? Lack of understanding; no insight into reasons behind, effects of and inter-relationships of nutrition/lifestyle behaviours; no comparison with population intakes/guidelines Poor understanding, insight, comparison Some understanding, insight, comparison Moderate understanding, insight, comparison Good understanding, insight, comparison Evidence and referencing 10% Use of information sources from a wide range of reliable evidence, with an emphasis on peerreviewed journal articles; accurate citations and reference list Overall impression, including flow (e.g. clarity, how clear is your organisation of the content?), layout (does your document look nice and tidy?), spelling and grammar, word count 5% Inadequate evidence; inappropriate/lack of referencing Poor evidence and referencing Some ok evidence; some referencing Moderate evidence; moderate referencing Good evidence and referencing Excellent understanding; advanced insight into reasons behind, effects of and interrelationships of nutrition/lifestyle behaviours; extensive comparison with population intakes/guidelines Excellent evidence and referencing Unsatisfactory overall impression, confusing, messy, lots of errors in spelling and grammar, much too long/short Poor overall impression, somewhat confusing, a bit messy, some errors in spelling and grammar, too long/short Below average but ok overall impression , not clear enough, parts messy, a few errors in spelling and grammar, a bit long/short Moderate / average overall impression, clear enough, tidy enough, minimal errors spelling and grammar, nearly there on word length Good overall impression , clear, tidy, no errors in spelling and grammar, spot on with word length Excellent overall impression, incredibly clear, very tidy, no errors in spelling and grammar, spot on with word length Content 5% describing your own nutrition/lifestyle behaviours, including analysis of data, with a focus on your nutrition habits, i.e. WHAT? Total 30% Nutrition Project Guide and Marking Rubric, page: 2 of 2

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