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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.
Magazines vs Journals
Covers
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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