Assignment: Malnutrition in Children

Assignment: Malnutrition in Children

Please use the following as a Grid below to write about the following topic:

Malnutrition in children under 5 years of age in developing countries

Background – Provide background information about the public health issue you selected.
Theories or conceptual framework – Review and explain the prevailing theories or conceptual framework used in the literature to understand the issue you selected.
Methods – Review the literature and describe the methodologies used in the studies to address the issue you selected. Limit your literature review to references from the past 5 years.
Strengths and limitations – Provide an analysis of the strengths and limitations of each of the methods your reviewed.
Recommendations for future research – Explain your recommendations to advance the understanding, prevention, and intervention of the issue in the future.
References – Include at least 10 references that support your presentation. All references must be from within the past 5 years.

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.