700 words Op-Ed Piece

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Please read all the followings.

Your assessment is to:

Choose one of the issues listed below and write a 700 word opinion editorial that critically analyses the challenges with realising aspirations of the common good in your professional community, locally and globally.

  • Patient access to prohibitively expensive treatments
  • Patient confidentiality (breaches)
  • Discrimination in the workplace
  • Discrimination in education (access and equity)
  • Fraud (financial/business contexts)
  • Abuse of privacy (social media, IT organisations)
  • The “Digital Divide”
  • Asylum seekers (and detention/incarceration)
  • Poverty and homelessness
  • Slavery (and human trafficking)

    • You should read the article on LEO that explains how to write an Op-Ed piece, and the examples provided before commencing this assessed task.

    General Instructions:

  • Create an evocative and engaging Op-Ed that explains a challenge associated with realising

    • aspirations of the common good in your professional community, locally and globally.

  • The Op-Ed should clearly explain to readers what the issue chosen from the list is and how

    • your understanding of the knowledge you have acquired in the unit addresses the issue or

    problem and relate to the discipline area you are studying in.

  • Please note that you do not have to come up with the ‘definitive solution’ for the Op Ed, this

    • may form part of Assessment 3. Your tutor is looking for a well-argued view in order to move

    forward on the issue or problem.

  • The Op-Ed is to be no more than 700 words long. The idea is to express your thoughts clearly

    • and concisely and make your argument as directly as you can – just like a journalist or writer.

    Do not assume that this assignment is easy given the word length. The challenge is to

    present a persuasive argument in a concise manner!

  • Although Op-Eds do not usually require referencing, for this academic work, full referencing

    • is required. References do not count in the word limit. (Harvard referencing is a must please)

    And make sure this is a turnitin upload please.