SCENARIO:

For this assessment, you will be demonstrating your ability to write a formal academic essay that uses appropriately formal 3rd person language and that demonstrates your ability to establish a clear main point or thesis about a topic and that incorporates and cites relevant and reliable research information used to support the ideas within your paper. You will be writing to and for an educated academic audience.

DIRECTIONS:

Select a specific, recent change in your field of study. For example, one change in the field of education is the increase in the use of standardized testing; one change in the field of law enforcement is the increased use of office body cameras.

Then, establish a main point about this change, either focusing on why this change occurred or analyzing what effects it has had on a particular group (for example, what has the increased use of body cameras had on police officers relationship with the community). You should not argue for a change to occur, nor should you take a position in favor or against this change. Your goal is to objectively analyze the cause or effect of this change.

You must incorporate 3-4 relevant and reliable, peer-reviewed secondary sources and demonstrate the ability to paraphrase and give credit to the sources using 6th edition APA format. Your submission should be 56 paragraphs long, or around 750850 words.

If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.

Minimum Submission Requirements

56 paragraphs (750850 words)
Addresses cause or effect of a change
Does not take a position, write to persuade, or offer recommendations
Applies 6th edition APA format
Incorporates 3-4 secondary, peer-reviewed, relevant, and reliable sources cited in-text and in a References page

Peer Responses:
    Length: A minimum of 150 words per post, not including references

Citations need to be within 5 (Five)  years
Context: Nursing in the USA

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            According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “The prevalence of obesity was 39.8% and affected about 93.3 million US adults in 2015~2016.” (“Adult Obesity Facts”, 2018) Obesity in America has become a great concern for adults as well as children.  The USDA has published numerous dietary guidelines over the years.  My Plate is the latest dietary guideline published by the USDA.  My Plate shows a graph of a dinner plate divided into four equal parts.  Alongside the for equal parts of the plate is a drinking glass.  Each equal section represents for different food groups vegetable, fruits, grains, protein, and the drinking glass represents dairy.
            In my opinion, My Plate is basic.  It does not go into detail what type of foods from each group are the healthier choices when choosing food from each group.  I do not think My Plate dietary guidelines would be useful in any population.  For example, consumers may feel because the protein section is not specific on what type of protein is healthy; they may believe eating hamburgers may be healthy because hamburgers fall under protein.  The Healthy Eating Plate created by the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard School of Medicine, on the other hand, is very detailed. The Healthy Eating Plate encourages consumers to eat healthy proteins like fish, poultry beans, and nuts.  The Healthy Eating Plate also urges consumers to stay active.  My Plate does not mention anything about activity.
            It great to have healthy eating guidelines, but to be effective; these guidelines should provide information on what are the best types of food for each section should be consumed.

 

References

Adult Obesity Facts. (2018, August 13). Retrieved January 29, 2020, from https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Healthy Eating Plate vs. USDA’s MyPlate. (2019, September 24). Retrieved January 29, 2020, from https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate-vs-usda-myplate/