Assignment: Principles of Nutrition

Assignment: Principles of Nutrition

Principles of Nutrition for Healthcare Research Paper

Objective

The main purpose of this RP is to critically reflect your understanding of the “Nutritional Support for elder patients” This RP must have 6 pages, including cover page and references, and be presented on APA format. The maximum similarity allowed with other publications is no more than 20%.

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES

Students will critically evaluate the existing publications related to this RP topic. This assignment is planned to help you review, understand, and apply different concepts related to Nutritional Support for elder patients concepts, as well as to become familiar with the new trends related to Nutritional Support for elder patients.

Assignment: Principles of Nutrition

You need to read two different articles related to the topic that can be found at the FNU’s Library database LIRN. Librarian Assistants will be more than glad to assist you at both, South and Hialeah Campus. In preparing the RP, you are also allowed to use two web references, although all the publications and references used should be properly cited and included in the reference section following the APA format guidelines. Also, I highly recommend you to ask Ms. Iliana Torres, at the HC Writing Lab room 413, her assistance in completing this research paper. (Ms. Torres Contact i..s@fnu.edu )

This RP must include:

1. Introduction: provide a brief synopsis of the subjects under discussion.

2. Definition of concepts related to these subjects: for example, Elder nutritional requirements, physiology of the elderly, facts the affect nutrition in elderly.

3. Conclusions and recommendations. You must express your own opinion how important is to have a proper diet in the Nutritional Support for elder patients

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.