Discuss about the investigating the role of school lunches in a public and private school.
There are no known risks involved in participating in this project. No one, including the student, will be able to associate your responses with your identity. All collected data will be destroyed upon completion of the course. Your participation is voluntary. You may choose not to participate, to stop responding at any time, or to skip questions that you do not want to answer. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate. Your participation serves as your voluntary agreement to participate in this project and your certification that you are 18 or older.
Topic: Investigating the role of school lunches in a public and private school.
Final Paper
Assignment Due: No later than December 2nd (Thursday)
Please use Times New Roman, 12pt font. Double spaced, 1 inch margins. Double sided printing is ok. Give your paper a catchy title (if you haven’t already). Your paper should be at least 12-15 pages – not to exceed 20 pages. Keep in mind a standard journal article is approximately 20 pages.
You should have sections clearly marked as follows: (also keep in mind you can be creative with your organization as well… we can discuss this in class)
Introduction
I suggest writing the introduction last. In the introduction you will introduce the reader to your topic, your research question(s), your purpose or objectives and a very brief summation of your findings.
Methods
Here you will introduce the reader to the research setting – how and why you put this project together. In other words… in order to answer your questions you did what???
Also here is where you describe who or what your population is and what parameters you were looking into ex. – age, class, gender, and so forth. Your reasons for choosing this topic. Methods employed – why these methods were employed and what value they brought to your research (think about how your research would be different if you employed different methods to answer this). For most of you, your methods will at least be: scanning the literature, or literature review, collecting data through various methodologies such as interviews, surveys, observation, etc. Describe which specific methodologies you employed and why. List how many participants you interviewed/surveyed, etc. Discuss the settings in which you collected your data – ex. did you conduct interviews at Starbucks? Someone’s home? Discuss ethics – discuss confidentiality for participants, use of pseudonyms, etc. Informed Consent * Also here you should list any personal reactions and biases (for example I interviewed family members so I have a personal bias, or it was difficult or maybe insightful to ask family members questions because I learned things I was not aware of that impacted me personally). The key here is to provide as much detail as possible, try to address any questions readers might ask regarding the setting and methods.
Literature Review
Remember that research is a conversation. In order to engage in the conversation you need to know what others have said with regards to your topic. Look for texts (books, journal articles – peer-reviewed is the standard and ideal) that relate to your topic. In your literature review you will be summarizing the main findings, make clear how this review supports (or does not support) the research that follows and how it might point the direction for future research (if this applies). This is also where you would include theoretical perspectives (medical ecology, food justice approach, structural functional, meaning centered or interpretive (explanatory models), Bourdieu’s concept of “cultural capital”, a Marxist – materialist perspective, a political-economic perspective… etc.
Results/Discussion
Here you will present your findings, using evidence taken directly from your interviews, observations and field notes. This can be done in multiple ways which we will discuss in class. In this section you can present your findings, ex. this is where you could show raw data – ex. demographics of your respondents, or number of people that agreed or disagreed with a question you asked, or snipits of narrative from interview data. You should begin to analyze the data here as well. What does this data mean? Were you able to address the questions you had going into the research project? How do you findings relate back to the points discussed in your literature review?
Conclusions (and Recommendations)
Here you will provide a summation and any concluding remarks. You may restate your research question(s) and findings. You may talk about the wider implications of the findings. Here you should also provide any recommendations for future research on this topic.
References
List your references cited – Here you need a minimum of 10 sources.
* Informed Consent – entitled “Course Assignment /Project – Participant Statement” form must be used when conducting interviews or surveys – if you have an online survey the consent form can be inserted there and you would need to have them confirm with a yes or a no if they agree (if they do not agree then they cannot do the interview/survey). If you are interviewing in person then a verbal agreement is enough (preferably captured on a recording device if they allow you to do an audio or video recording).
The Participant Statement form template is in Blazeview – you do need to customize it to your project.
Course Assignment/Project – Participant Statement
There are no known risks involved in participating in this project. No one, including the student, will be able to associate your responses with your identity. All collected data will be destroyed upon completion of the course. Your participation is voluntary. You may choose not to participate, to stop responding at any time, or to skip questions that you do not want to answer. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate. Your participation serves as your voluntary agreement to participate in this project and your certification that you are 18 or older.
Environment, Food and Society
ANTH 4900/SOCI 4800
Fall 2021
Course Assignment/Project – Participant Statement
There are no known risks involved in participating in this project. No one, including the student, will be able to associate your responses with your identity. All collected data will be destroyed upon completion of the course. Your participation is voluntary. You may choose not to participate, to stop responding at any time, or to skip questions that you do not want to answer. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate. Your participation serves as your voluntary agreement to participate in this project and your certification that you are 18 or older.
Topic: Investigating the role of school lunches in a public and private school.
Final Paper
Assignment Due: No later than December 2nd (Thursday)
Please use Times New Roman, 12pt font. Double spaced, 1 inch margins. Double sided printing is ok. Give your paper a catchy title (if you haven’t already). Your paper should be at least 12-15 pages – not to exceed 20 pages. Keep in mind a standard journal article is approximately 20 pages.
You should have sections clearly marked as follows: (also keep in mind you can be creative with your organization as well… we can discuss this in class)
Introduction
I suggest writing the introduction last. In the introduction you will introduce the reader to your topic, your research question(s), your purpose or objectives and a very brief summation of your findings.
Methods
Here you will introduce the reader to the research setting – how and why you put this project together. In other words… in order to answer your questions you did what???
Also here is where you describe who or what your population is and what parameters you were looking into ex. – age, class, gender, and so forth. Your reasons for choosing this topic. Methods employed – why these methods were employed and what value they brought to your research (think about how your research would be different if you employed different methods to answer this). For most of you, your methods will at least be: scanning the literature, or literature review, collecting data through various methodologies such as interviews, surveys, observation, etc. Describe which specific methodologies you employed and why. List how many participants you interviewed/surveyed, etc. Discuss the settings in which you collected your data – ex. did you conduct interviews at Starbucks? Someone’s home? Discuss ethics – discuss confidentiality for participants, use of pseudonyms, etc. Informed Consent * Also here you should list any personal reactions and biases (for example I interviewed family members so I have a personal bias, or it was difficult or maybe insightful to ask family members questions because I learned things I was not aware of that impacted me personally). The key here is to provide as much detail as possible, try to address any questions readers might ask regarding the setting and methods.
Literature Review
Remember that research is a conversation. In order to engage in the conversation you need to know what others have said with regards to your topic. Look for texts (books, journal articles – peer-reviewed is the standard and ideal) that relate to your topic. In your literature review you will be summarizing the main findings, make clear how this review supports (or does not support) the research that follows and how it might point the direction for future research (if this applies). This is also where you would include theoretical perspectives (medical ecology, food justice approach, structural functional, meaning centered or interpretive (explanatory models), Bourdieu’s concept of “cultural capital”, a Marxist – materialist perspective, a political-economic perspective… etc.
Results/Discussion
Here you will present your findings, using evidence taken directly from your interviews, observations and field notes. This can be done in multiple ways which we will discuss in class. In this section you can present your findings, ex. this is where you could show raw data – ex. demographics of your respondents, or number of people that agreed or disagreed with a question you asked, or snipits of narrative from interview data. You should begin to analyze the data here as well. What does this data mean? Were you able to address the questions you had going into the research project? How do you findings relate back to the points discussed in your literature review?
Conclusions (and Recommendations)
Here you will provide a summation and any concluding remarks. You may restate your research question(s) and findings. You may talk about the wider implications of the findings. Here you should also provide any recommendations for future research on this topic.
References
List your references cited – Here you need a minimum of 10 sources.
* Informed Consent – entitled “Course Assignment /Project – Participant Statement” form must be used when conducting interviews or surveys – if you have an online survey the consent form can be inserted there and you would need to have them confirm with a yes or a no if they agree (if they do not agree then they cannot do the interview/survey). If you are interviewing in person then a verbal agreement is enough (preferably captured on a recording device if they allow you to do an audio or video recording).
The Participant Statement form template is in Blazeview – you do need to customize it to your project.
Course Assignment/Project – Participant Statement
There are no known risks involved in participating in this project. No one, including the student, will be able to associate your responses with your identity. All collected data will be destroyed upon completion of the course. Your participation is voluntary. You may choose not to participate, to stop responding at any time, or to skip questions that you do not want to answer. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate. Your participation serves as your voluntary agreement to participate in this project and your certification that you are 18 or older.
