Nutrition and Health, S2 2015

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    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:
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    You are to assess and critically analyse your diet and wider lifestyle behaviours in this project.
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    The focus is NUTRITION and you focus on the analysis/analyses of your nutrition habits.
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    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.
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    This assessment has an emphasis on learning outcome 3.
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    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.
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    You will submit a Word or pdf document via Turnitin/Moodle.
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    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
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    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%

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