ATS1396 Assignment 4
Overview
This summative assessment task is designed to allow vou to demonstrate what vou have learned from the unit and vour reading, It aims to develop your academic writing skills and critical thinking by engaging in an original piece of research and writing. Your essay/report needs to demonstrate your learning from the unit by analysing the data collected in week 4 and developing an argument. Your essay/report will follow a structured format that is common in many peer-reviewed articles.
Your essay/report needs to:
● Identify key concepts and authors
● Demonstrate what you have learned from the unit and your reading
● Show that you understand the anthropological implications of the topic you have developed from the database
● Discuss the value, and the limitations or inconsistencies in the concepts you use for discussing this data
● Identify other arguments, if relevant
Steps to complete the assignment
This assessment consists of three stages:
1. Analysing the summary of collected data
2. Researching the specific aspects of the data for description and discussion
3. Writing a 2000-word findings and discussion essay.
Stage 1: Analysis of the data
You will analyse data from the household drugs database we will provide you access to. We have discussed various patterns in the data during our tutorials, and now you must choose a specific aspect to focus on in your essay. You can start by sorting and categorising the data to explore and identify patterns, categories, and exceptions. Consider questions like: How many relevant entries are there on your chosen topic in the database? Can you group some of the drugs by their type or category? What categories of drugs (vitamins, antibiotics, painkillers, etc.) are there? How many per household? Was there anything that surprised you? Choose a focus area, such as antibiotic use, herbal medicine use, reproductive drugs, nootropic drug use, stimulants, painkillers, surprising patterns, costs, etc. The choice is yours.
Alternatively, you can refer to the data summaries we have provided. The aim of this assignment is for you to be informed by the data. This is not a statistics class, so no statistical analysis is required. Instead, we want to evaluate your critical skills in interpreting and analysing the collected data.
Next, create a table, graph, or another method to best highlight your analysis. This visualisation can include categories of medicines in the inventory by numbers, or any other analytical approach you have taken. Be creative here! You can do an infographic or any other way that displays your data in an interesting and effective manner.
Stage 2: Literature research and analysis
Here is where you will undergo a search of the literature to find relevant anthropological (and relevant ancillary) literature to analyse and contextualise your data. You will find scholarly sources from the appropriate databases to conduct your research on your topic of interest. You have already completed an annotated bibliography that can be integrated into your essay. This task allows you to apply your learning to a real dataset, involving data analysis, a concise review and critical synthesis of relevant literature, and your own observations and discussions.
Here is where you will ask questions about the data and compare and contextualise it with what has already been written and researched about the topic. For example, you might ask yourself what does the literature say about the use of vitamins? Herbal medicines? Reproductive drugs? How do these sources help you explain, analyse, compare, and/or contrast what you have found in our database?
Stage 3: Presenting the data and writing your essay
Your essay should include a concise introduction, a review of the literature, a brief paragraph on the drugs/type of drugs/whatever aspect you choose to focus on from the data, the findings from the data collection that you are focusing on, discussion, and a brief conclusion. Use these as headings for the various sections. This structure follows a format common in many journals. Your report should have a title and rely on fluent and logical written expression.
Notes on Formatting:
● Write report title at top of Annotated Bibliography.
● 12-point font-Calibri, Times New Roman, or Aptos.
● Use the headings and example of the template.
● Double spaced!!!!
● Pages should be numbered.
● Save the file as a word document (.docx, .doc), rich text file (.rtf), or pdf with the following title: Surname_FRE.docx (for example, Smith_AB.docx).
● Citations and references in Harvard style. as detailed in the Monash Library site.
● There is no recommended number of references you should use. It will depend upon your focus of your discussion. We would expect a minimum of 7 relevant references. Anthropological works should be the major components of the literature referred to.
● References (at the end) not included in word count. But citations (in the text) are included in the word count.
● Word count=2000 words +/-10% (1800-2200). There is a 5% penalty for going over/under the word limit. This penalty goes up to 10%l if your work is under 20% the word count (1600).
● Contents of any results table or figures are not included in the word count.
● Raw data not to be included, but you should try to devise a table showing the data you are referring to from the large database or a summary of what you are focusing on.
Late submission and penalties:
Please be aware that the following penalties apply if you submit your assessment task after the due date and time without an approved extension or special consideration:
You will receive a penalty of 5 per cent for late submission, and a further 5 per cent penalty will be applied for each additional day (24-hour period), or part thereof, that the assessment task is overdue. Assessment tasks submitted more than seven days late will not be accepted and will receive a zero mark.