Assessment: Popular Science Article – Instructions
Imagine the following scenario: the UK government is threatening to cut the budget for medical science research by 40% next year and has asked funding bodies to make decisions on which areas of research should be prioritized or protected from cuts. As an expert on medical research, you are invited by ‘The Conversation’, an online news provider, to write an article making a case for the value of medical research and your opinion on which areas, if any, should be protected from cuts.
This is your opportunity to convince the public that medical research is important. The article must be understandable by a non-specialist audience. This assessment is an exercise in communicating specialised/complex information to an educated public.
Your article must be engaging, accessible, and free of unexplained jargon. A paper that a non- expert cannot understand will receive a low mark no matter how good you make the case for protecting medical research. You may use a maximum of three figures (e.g., graphs or diagrams) if they help illustrate a point more effectively than text but you must acknowledge the source of any published material. Figure legends are not included in the word count. However they must be directly relevant to the figure and not used as a means of increasing the text content of your article to overcome the word limit.
Your article must address the following core points to build your case::
What proportion of funding for medical research comes from the government?
How is the funding used?
How does medical research return economic and societal benefit?
What are the possible consequences of budget cuts? You may suggest an area of medical research to spare from the cuts and justifywhy.
This is an opportunity to use your knowledge to generate a convincing case that properly funded, good quality medical research is a worthwhile investment for the UK governmentand that cuts are a mistake. Although articles in ‘The Conversation’ usually show citations as links within the text, for the purposes of this assessment, you should provide a bibliography. Use numbers in the body of the text and a full citation in the reference list.
1500 (+/- 10%) words. References are not included in the word count.
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