OLET1139 - Final Assignment You are required to submit an essay of 1000 words and a five minute recorded presentation sum- marising your main findings by 18 October, 23:59. The essay should answer the following ques- tions: You have been asked by the Australian Institute of Family Studies to prepare a short essay on the impact of COVID-19 on some of the social issues in Australia. In your essay, use economic concepts and perspectives to address the following issues: A. Describe the trends in marriage, divorce, and fertility rates in Australia over the last 50 years. In what ways, both during and after, did the COVID-19 pandemic influence these trends? Make sure you have the diagram(s) to support your answer. B. Using an economics perspective, identify and explain the factors/policies that might impact people’s decision about marriage, divorce and having children (at least 3 factors for each of the social issue). C. How has manner in which relationships are formed changed over the last 50 years? Has there been an impact on this trend DURING and AFTER COVID-19? Will this impact persist well beyond the end of the pandemic? D. What policies might you recommend (could be more than one policy) to the Australian government to address declining fertility rates? What are some examples of policies enacted in other countries to address this issue? In your answer, provide and explain some unintended consequences of such policies. Guidelines: Essay • The essay should be 1000 words (this is a strict upper-bound, essays exceeding 1000 words will lose 1% of their grade for every 10 words over). • The essay should follow the following structure: Title Page: A title page that includes the title of the essay and student ID (not included in word count). I. Introduction Brief Introduction. Answer the question in part A. II. Body (Analysis/Discussion) Answer the question set out as in part B, C, D. This section may consist of multiple paragraphs, headings and sub-headings. III. Conclusion References[This section is not included in the word count] 1 References [*This section is not included in the word count*] This section should list the references used in the paper. Use APA reference and citation style (7th edition). For more information about the APA reference and citation style, please refer to the APA 7th referencing guide, which is available on the Canvas site and on the USyd Library’s APA style site: https://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/citation/apa7 Below is a simple example of an in-text reference and a reference list entry: In-Text Reference: [...] In contract to most other introductory microeconomics textbooks, Nguyen and Wait (2016) discuss all economic concepts in a very concise manner. [...] Reference List: Nguyen, B. & Wait, A. (2016). Essentials of Microeconomics. London, UK: Taylor & Francis Submission Instructions: Essays must be submitted electronically via the Turnitin submis- sion inbox on Canvas by 23:59 on 18 October 2024. Guidelines: Presentation • The presentation should be a 5 minute recording which presents the main findings of the essay. – Students are not required to have their face recorded during the presentation. Simply their voice over the presentation. • The structure of the presentation should be as follows: Slide 1: Title Page Slide 2: Introduction of their essay Slide 3-6: Summary of main findings. Slide 6: Discussion of any use of AI tools to improve essay. • Please be advised that we are aware of the use of AI tools by students in assignments. We encourage you to demonstrate in the presentation how these tools have assisted you in pro- ducing high quality work. • For recording your presentation, I recommend entering a zoom call and using the share screen function to display your slides. You can then record yourself providing the presenta- tion and upload this recording. Submission Instructions: Presentations must be submitted electronically via the Turnitin submission inbox on Canvas by 23:59 on 18 October 2024. 2 Grading the Essays • The essay represents 30% of your final grade for OLET1139 • Essays will be graded on the basis of the substantive arguments you make, along with the clarity of your exposition. The discussion that you set out may be enhanced by any research that you refer to in your paper. We would encourage you to search for other relevant infor- mation about the question. Government reports and academic research papers are a good place to look. • Your discussion should draw on the economic concepts and reasoning that have been devel- oped in this unit. Grading the Presentation • The presentation represents 10% of your final grade for OLET1139 • Presentations will be graded on the basis of the quality of presentation and how well the students are able to highlight the key findings of their essay. • Particular emphasis on students showing a capability to enhance the presented material of their presentation within the slides by providing additional verbal context to their findings. • Graders will stop marking presentations after the 6 minute mark. 3 Rubric Essays will be graded using the following grading table: 1) Content and Organization Score Part A. There is evidence of research. /15 Part B. There is evidence of research. /30 Part C. There is evidence of research. /30 Part D. There is evidence of research. /30 Conclusion /5 2) Grammar and Mechanics Sentences are well constructed, in terms of style, logical organization, clarity, and succinctness. There are few grammatical/spelling errors /5 References are correctly formatted, accurately represent the source mate- rial, and comprehensive /5 3) Presentation Presentation summarises the main findings of essay /30 The presentation is engaging and the presenters provide additional discus- sion on top of the material present in the slides /30 If AI use is detected, the students present a discussion of how AI was utilised to improve their essay /10 Presentation is timed well to be roughly 5 minutes. /10 4 51作业君版权所有