Persuasive Essay: CUC100 Assessment 4
Value: 50%
Length: 1800 words
Task Overview:
This assessment represents the final product which brings together all your brainstorming, thinking, planning, learning, researching, notetaking and summarising into a clearly organised, and referenced persuasive essay. It is a chance to put into practice what you have learned about writing academic essays and bring together all you have learned in the unit about sustainability.
The skills you learn through writing this essay will continue to apply throughout your study, and the knowledge about sustainability will be relevant to your daily lives and in your future profession.
Task Details:
Write an 1800 word essay on the following:
‘Sustainability is a paradigm for thinking about the future in which environmental, societal and economic considerations are balanced in the pursuit of an improved quality of life’ (UNESCO 2015).
- Choose a scenario from the list below and scope it to a specific location, community, organisation and/or aspect.
- Explain the key sustainability concerns from the perspective of each of the three key dimensions: environmental, social and economic.
- Discuss responses to these concerns that could help to achieve sustainability.
Scenarios
- Food production
- Extreme climate events
- Consumerism
- Resource usage in a professional organisation (e.g. hospital, school, law firm, etc.)
- Tourism
Further Instructions:
- You must support your arguments with in-text citations from credible academic sources;
- You must include at least 6 references (two may include your core readings);
- Consistently format in-text citations and the complete reference list at the end of your essay using the current APA edition referencing style.
Suggestions to help you complete this assignment successfully:
- All work in CUC100 prepares you for your final essay. Review what you have learned throughout the semester and build on the research, planning, notes and ideas you have developed through your learning activities, previous assessments, and tutor feedback;
- Ensure you have scoped your scenario to a specific location, community, organisation and/or aspect, in order to focus the explanation and discussion in your essay;
- Your PowerPoint presentation helped refine your planning for this essay, so we expect you will be using your refined taxonomy and draft thesis, and definition from the power point to help you draft your essay;
- Use the first body paragraph after your introduction to provide the sustainability definition and background to your scenario and scope;
- Reflect on what you have learned about referencing in Week 7 and in your annotated bibliography to consolidate your understanding of the correct referencing conventions;
- Draw on your textbook (Rolls & Wignell, 2015). It is an excellent source of information and advice on writing an academic essay and referencing. Chapters 1-5, 8, and 10 are particularly relevant;
- Remember you can use the core readings as references but you will also need to do your own further research because you need at least 6 references overall;
- Use credible sources for your research and references. This means textbooks from your field, academic and/or professional journals, and credible websites (i.e. not Wikipedia or randomly chosen sites you may have Googled). Refer to the CDU Library webpage for more information;
- Before submitting your essay, check the Pre-submission Checklist on the following page to make sure that it meets all requirements.