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Year 11 Human Biology

Communicating Science

Last updated 25 February 2020

This page has been designed to support the Extended Response Task about communicating scienti�cally.

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Headlines

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Pages

Main Di�ferences Writing your article

Use these resources as a guide to help you write yourarticle. You may remember some of this from English.

Feature article template

How to write a great feature article

Sources of Information

Even though you are only writing for the general public, it’s still important to make sure your information isaccurate and up-to-date.

Try the following reliable sources of information:

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eResources

Free Internet Sites

ABC News

BBC News

Department of Health

The Guardian Newspaper

World Health Organisation

YouTube Channels

ABC News (Australia)

ABC News In-depth

Al Jazeera English

DW News

Guardian News

PBS NewsHour

Referencing

In-text citation methods

Paraphrasing

The Coronavirus, now o�cally known as CORVID-19, is not only a�ecting people’s health around theworld but is causing chaos in other areas that relyon China. This includes not only the obvioussectors like tourism and education but also theretail market whose many products rely on items

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from China. The issue is not the lack of materialsbut the lack of workers in the factories producingthose items. Graham Hoskins from Cosmic Music inPerth says he is already experiencing issues evenordering parts for musical instruments (Perpitch,2020).

Direct Quote

The Coronavirus, now o�cally known as CORVID-19, is not only a�ecting people’s health around theworld but is causing chaos in other areas that relyon China. This includes not only the obvioussectors like tourism and education but also theretail market whose many products rely on itemsfrom China. The issue is not the lack of materialsbut the lack of workers in the factories producingthose items.

Graham Hoskins (as cited in Perpitch, 2020), fromCosmic Music in Perth, says it’s not usually aproblem sourcing parts for musical instruments“but unfortunately when we contacted themanufacturer, he said there’s no workers, theo�ce is closed, the factory’s closed…so we can’tship it for you”.

Figure 1: A Chinese subway during the threat ofCoronavirus(Cheung, 2020)

What about images?In APA graphs, photographs, illustrations andcharts are all examples of �gures.

Italicise the word �gure

Include the in-text citation below the image ortable

Your reference at the end will still look like this:

Cheung, K. (2020). A Chinese subway during thethreat of Coronavirus [Image]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-18/coronavirus-subway/11975820

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Your Turn

Reference the following article and image using Citefast:

Article Image

TurnItIn

For this task you will need to submit your article via Turnitin. Your teacher will provide you with the classcode you need to do this.

Turnitin only accepts �les from Microsoft Word or PDF. If you create your article in Pages you will need toconvert it to PDF �rst.

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References

• Science communication [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/11/20/why-scientists-should-communicate-science-getting-to-the-heart-of-the-matter/

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