Assignment: Cancer Public Service Announcement Project - Breast Cancer
The local chapter of the American Cancer Society has learned that you are taking a Cancer Biology college course and have asked you to help them develop a public service announcement. The goal of the announcement is to educate the general public on the biology of one specific type of cancer and to encourage people to get screened, look for signs themselves, or implement lifestyle changes that will reduce their chance of developing that specific type of cancer.
In this multi-step assignment, you will throughout the semester create a public service announcement brochure, article, poster, video, podcast, or narrated presentation.
If you choose a video, podcast, or narrated presentation, you must also include a written script as part of your presentation. If a presentation or video is uploaded to YouTube (unlisted); you can download an automatically generated transcript - see more information below.
This assignment addresses the following course outcomes:
Identify properties involved in maintaining homeostasis in order to recognize how certain factors contribute to cancer.
Recognize the complexity of cancer and assess current approaches for screening, diagnosis, and treatment in order to adopt appropriate lifestyle strategies. Apply knowledge of causes, development, and progression of cancer to ask questions and make informed decisions about personal and public health. Need Assignment Help?
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Format Choices:
A narrated PowerPoint presentation for a community health fair
A popular science-type article to be published in a local newspaper or magazine
A scientific brochure to be handed out at local health centers.
Regardless of chosen format, your public service announcement should contain the following information:
Introduction: Share a few statistics about the chosen type of cancer and introduce what will be covered.
Describe the known genetic and environmental factors that cause this type of cancer. Include details about genes, inherited and spontaneous mutations, proteins, hormones, and known carcinogens that are involved with the development of this type of cancer.
Using your knowledge of cancer cell and tissue biology, describe the development and progression of this type of cancer.
Discuss the current approach for screening, diagnosis, and treatment for this type of cancer. Include either an explanation of how one type of treatment works at the cellular level or discuss an emerging innovative approach to treatment.
Discuss what can be done from a public health perspective, and from an individual perspective, to reduce the risks associated with the development of this type of cancer.
A minimum of 5 informative and relevant images are required, regardless of the chosen format. More than 5 is fine. These images should be referred to in the text and/or narration and should be explained as needed. Include the source below each image (just the URL is enough). See suggestion for type of images under Step.
Conclusion:
References in APA format. Include at least one intext citation for each reference, and more as needed throughout the presentation. Specific information from each of the cited information sources should be evident in your presentation. All references must have functioning URLs (links).
Length Requirement: 1200-1800 words
Mechanics and organization of content will account for 10% of grade.
Your announcement should be fully paraphrased in your own words, your own writing style, and structure. Changing just a few words in a sentence is not fully paraphrasing.
Use in-text citations within your assignment and a reference list at the end. Text from outside sources either needs to be fully paraphrased in your own writing style (in-text citation is still needed), or needs quotation marks around the copied text, plus an in-text citation after. There should be a minimal need for direct quotes in this assignment (less than 10%).
Remember that your audience is the general public. Although you may be using some technical information resources you should explain everything so that people who have not completed BIOL 304 can understand it.
Here are some resources that may be helpful as you write your paper:
The UMGC Effective Writing Center
Paraphrasing content in your own words
Submit your public service announcement to the assignment folder by the due date listed in the syllabus.
Submission formats:
Submit a video or narrated presentation as an unlisted YouTube link (see instructions below), and a written transcript in a Word document.
Submit a podcast as an audio file, or url, and as a written transcript in Word document.
Submit brochure, poster, or article as a Word document, PowerPoint, or PDF file.
Turnitin: The originality of your assignment will be checked with Turnitin. Please review the originality report, and if needed, submit a revised assignment before the submission deadline.