Instructions for Final Paper (Anthropology, Health and the E

Instructions for Final Paper (Anthropology, Health and the Environment) Due: April 4, 2022 Telling Your Environmental Story Through the Anthropology Dozen PLEASE READ CAREFULLY In this class we have explored numerous examples regarding how to research an environmental issue holistically. The World Health Organization (WHO) provides a definition that helps us perceive issues in a holistic manner. According to WHO: “Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations.” We have used the “Anthropology Dozen” as a guide to provide ideas that help you implement a holistic approach in accordance with WHO’s definition. Numerous class lectures and class discussions have been oriented towards this goal, especially “Lake Lansing Just Wants to Be Left Alone” and “The Agony of Flint.” As the semester has progressed, you have narrowed your topics to make your research more manageable, while always keeping in mind the Anthropology Dozen and how each relates to your topic. Content of the Paper In this paper you are to construct a story around one (or a few) of your most interesting findings. The story must include every one of the Anthropology Dozen. However, you are not supposed to just list and define any of the Anthropology Dozen or merely write up your findings in a 1-to-12 Anthropology Dozen list. This wouldn’t make any sense to potential readers who are not familiar with them. Instead, as ethnographic writers, you need to use these Anthropology Dozen ideas as the backbone methodology of what you are creating, which is a detailed story/narrative about a person, event, your own travels, etc. Your story/narrative needs to be filled with observations and facts that encompass what people are doing to address a given environmental problem (just as the two articles on Lansing and Flint demonstrated). More specifically, you must: 1) define a problem; 2) describe those factors (culture, institutions, people, etc.) that are responsible for the problem; 3) tell why it is personal to you; 4) reveal your investigative strategies; and 5) talk about various approaches, both practical and global, that people are taking to resolve the problem. However, do NOT list these five elements in any formal structure, so that the paper seems like a list. Instead, just as with your tie-ins with the Anthropology Dozen, your writing should be seamless (., not bullet points, lists, or a bunch of subheadings). The five aspects listed above should just be incorporated into the flow of the story/narrative. Integrate them within the text, as I did in the article on Lake Lansing and the article on Flint. NOTE: Sometimes students unintentionally plagiarize from the sources that they have used when writing their papers. Certainly, none of you wants this to happen! To make sure that you know the difference between paraphrasing and unintentionally plagiarizing, please view the following helpful site that gives examples and explanations: (Links to an external site.) Important Paper Formatting Information The paper must contain ten full pages of text and be double-spaced, with 12-point Times New Roman font. It must have 1-inch margins on all sides. The first line of each paragraph should be indented. All pages should be numbered except for the title page, which has no number (and therefore does not count as one of the 10 pages). Page numbers must be within the 1-inch margin in the upper right corner of each page. Here is information about how to structure your title page: a) everything must be centered on the page and double spaced; b) the title should appear about a third of the way down the page and be in bold; c) a few lines later put your name; d) on the line after your name put the name of our class; e) on the line after that put the date (month, day, year). The body of your paper must contain no pictures, graphs, charts, or images of any kind. If you have pictures, graphs, charts, or images, they must be shared in an Appendix, which occurs after the References section. The paper must contain 20 citations from twenty different sources. In other words, if you make five citations from one source (article, book, newspaper, or website), it will only count as one citation. This means that you will probably have more than twenty total citations in your paper (because some citations will come from the same source). To made things easier for you, I’d like you to use the 7th edition of American Psychological Association (APA) style, rather than Chicago style, for your citations and references. For information concerning APA-style formatting of citations within the body of the paper (., in-text citations), please see the following website: (Links to an external site.) Remember that an exact quotation from a source must not only be cited, but also must have quotation marks around it! This shows that it’s someone else’s words, not yours. In the in-text citation you will then add, after the author’s last name and year of the publication, the page number of the quote. Put a lower-case p, a period, a space, and then the page number. Do not include any quotes longer than two sentences. Every source you cite must also appear in the References section at the end of the paper. (And every source listed in the References must be cited in the body of the paper.) Again, you must have at least 20 references. Here is information about APA-style formatting for the References section: (Links to an external site.). Sometimes the online, automatic, APA-style reference generators don’t get things totally right! So, if you use such online tools, be sure to check and make sure the references are indeed in the correct format. In addition, be sure that references are listed alphabetically. Upload the completed paper to the designated Assignment file on Canvas by April 4, 2022 at 11:59 . Late papers will lose 25 points unless they are 12 hours late or more. If they are late by 12 hours or more, they will lose 50 points.