Nutritional Challenges Among Urban Children

Use 10 Literature Articles (Research or Journal articles.) Term Paper Rubric This course requires the student to produce a scholarly paper on an urban/public health issue. A topic will be assigned to you by the lecture instructor. The paper will be graded using the rubric (below). The student must use APA format (6th edition of the American Psychological Association (2010) for the paper. Papers must be submitted in Safe Assign. Papers that are submitted late will be penalized for each day the submission is delayed. The paper should be 8-pages in length excluding references and title page. Either citation problems or Plagiarism detected by Safe Assign will result in significant reductions or a zero grade for the paper. CATEGORY 3 2 1 0 1. Introduction: why is this topic important? ¾ page Excellent introduction. Good introduction. Poorly written introduction. No introduction. 2. Description of the targeted groups for this program or intervention. Describe the impact of the health issue for this group ¾ page The student did an excellent job describing how this issue impacts the targeted group. The student did a good job describing how this issue impacts the targeted group. The student did a poor job describing how this issue impacts the targeted group. The student did not discuss how this issue impacts the targeted group. 3. Challenges and barriers in tackling this issue One to one and one half page The student did an excellent job in describing the challenges The student did a good job in describing the challenges The student did a basic job in describing the challenges Missing discussion of challenges 4. Search of the Literature: what are the researchers and experts saying? One and one half page The student synthesizes information from at least ten evidenced based references. The student synthesized information from seven evidence based references. Information is from less than four evidenced based references. Sources are inadequate and irrelevant to the topic. 5. Potential Interventions: describe a program in sufficient detail. One and one half page The program or intervention is described in a manner, providing the reader with a rich understanding of the program The program or intervention is described with minimal detail. The program is barely described. The student did not describe a program or intervention 6. Stakeholders, e.g., politicians, administrators, health providers, general public. One page The student did an excellent job describing all the stakeholders with detail as to WHY they are interested in this issue The student described most stakeholders but insufficient detail as to what their interest is The student describes stakeholders but provides little to no detail The student did not describe the stakeholders. 7. Policy Recommendations ¾ page Policy Recommendations were extensive, thoughtful and accurate Policy recommendations were summarized There were few policy recommendations. Significant recommendations were absent. There were no Policy Recommendations 8. Summary and conclusions ¾ page The student did an excellent job summarizing the paper The student did a good job summarizing the paper The student's summary was tangential and irrelevant The student did not summarize the paper 9. APA format, grammar, spelling, sentence construction*