Description
HEAL8150 – Individual Assignment Instructions
Students will be given time to work on their assignments during class to identify research articles. Additional time will be required outside of class to complete the assignment.
topic: The role of naturopathic remedies in chronic disease management
• Select 2 articles to use for background research and literature review. One article would be a best practice document or government report, and the other article would be from professional journal. Seek approval for articles other than best practices, government reports or journal articles. News articles and web page blogs are not appropriate for the assignment.
Summarize the purpose of your policy issue in one or two one or two sentences.
Discuss the background to your issue. Ensure that this discussion is based on research and properly cited.
• Discuss the current situation of your policy issue ensuring that this section is based on research and properly cited.
• Use the examples discussed in class as a guide for the development of the briefing note.
• Using the research, you conducted to write out some recommendations relevant to your topic and summarize them. These would be properly cited.
• Identify next steps and submit the completed policy brief, including purpose, background, current situation, recommendations, and next steps.
Report Format:
• Date
• Purpose
• Background/ Literature review
• Current Situation
• Recommendations
• Next Steps
• References – APA format
Use 12-point Arial font and double space the document, minimum 3 pages-maximum 4 pages
• Use APA formatting.
• Please see the rubric to understand the expectations
Criteria Level 1 (Significant Improvement Needed)
1 point
Level 2 (Developing)
2 points
Level 3 (Pass)
3 points
Level 4 (Accomplished)
4 points
Level 5 (Exceptional)
5 points
Criterion Score
Purpose and explanation of the background
No purpose or background statement is provided.
The purpose and explanation contain errors of assertion or requires more detail.
The problem statement is adequate but missing clarity or detail.
Purpose and statement are mostly clearly outlined with an explanation of the background provided.
Purpose and statement are fully and clearly outlined with an explanation of the background provided.
Score of Purpose and explanation of the background,
/ 5
Current situation, Literature review
No analysis of current situation is provided.
Discussion is lacking evidence or evidence is incorrect.
Adequate discussion of current situation. The brief has some evidence of support for the arguments however it is overlooking some of the supporting argument or required components.
Mostly thoughtful, logical, well-articulated analysis of the current situations including legislation and/or past policy, best practice, research, and data. Literature review is of mostly of high quality and included in the assignment .
Thoughtful, logical, well-articulated analysis of the current situations including legislation and/or past policy, best practice, research, and data. Literature review is of high quality and included in the assignment.
Score of Current situation, Literature review,
/ 5
Policy options, recommendations, next steps
No options, recommendations, or next steps were provided.
Discussion is confusing and lacking some of the required components, or detail.
Adequate discussion of policy options, recommendations, and next steps, however, may not be clearly stated or is missing detail.
Policy options are mostly identified, and recommendations and next steps are mostly stated and appropriate to the audience.
Policy options are identified, and recommendations and next steps are clearly stated and appropriate to the audience.
Score of Policy options, recommendations, next steps,
/ 5
Use and quality of references
No references were provided.
Some references are of poor quality or required number are not utilized.
References are adequate but not all meet the quality requirements.
References are mostly of quality and meet requirements.
References are of quality and meet or exceed requirements.
Score of Use and quality of references,
/ 5
Formatting, use of headers, subheadings, grammar/punctuation and spelling, APA
No heading, subheadings are not used, grammar, punctuation, and spelling is poor, and APA is not used.
The brief is confusing, there are many grammar, punctuation, spelling and APA formatting problems.
The brief is adequate, transitions between thoughts are adequate, minor amount of grammar, punctuation, spelling and APA problems exist.
Brief provides mostly clear policy analysis, an adequate number of references, no grammar, punctuation, spelling or APA formatting errors.
Brief provides clear policy analysis, an adequate number of references, no grammar, punctuation, spelling or APA formatting errors.
Score of Formatting, use of headers, subheadings, grammar/punctuation and spelling, APA,
/ 5
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