Year 11 Human Biology
Communicating Science
Last updated 25 February 2020
Magazines vs Journals
Covers
Headlines
Pages
Main Diffferences
Writing your article
Use these resources as a guide to help you write your article. You may remember some of this from English.
Sources of Information
Even though you are only writing for the general public, it’s still important to make sure your information is accurate and up-to-date.
Try the following reliable sources of information:
eResources
Free Internet Sites
YouTube Channels
Referencing
In-text citation methods
Paraphrasing
The Coronavirus, now offically known as CORVID-19, is not only affecting people’s health around the world but is causing chaos in other areas that rely on China. This includes not only the obvious sectors like tourism and education but also the retail market whose many products rely on items from China. The issue is not the lack of materials but the lack of workers in the factories producing those items. Graham Hoskins from Cosmic Music in Perth says he is already experiencing issues even ordering parts for musical instruments (Perpitch, 2020).
Direct Quote
The Coronavirus, now offically known as CORVID-19, is not only affecting people’s health around the world but is causing chaos in other areas that rely on China. This includes not only the obvious sectors like tourism and education but also the retail market whose many products rely on items from China. The issue is not the lack of materials but the lack of workers in the factories producing those items.
Graham Hoskins (as cited in Perpitch, 2020), from Cosmic Music in Perth, says it’s not usually a problem sourcing parts for musical instruments “but unfortunately when we contacted the manufacturer, he said there’s no workers, the office is closed, the factory’s closed…so we can’t ship it for you”.
Figure 1: A Chinese subway during the threat of Coronavirus
(Cheung, 2020)
What about images?
- In APA graphs, photographs, illustrations and charts are all examples of figures.
- Italicise the word figure
- Include the in-text citation below the image or table
Your reference at the end will still look like this:
Cheung, K. (2020). A Chinese subway during the threat of Coronavirus [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-18/coronavirus-subway/11975820
Your Turn
Reference the following article and image using Citefast:
Article
Image
TurnItIn
For this task you will need to submit your article via Turnitin. Your teacher will provide you with the class code you need to do this.
Turnitin only accepts files from Microsoft Word or PDF. If you create your article in Pages you will need to convert it to PDF first.
References
• Science communication [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/11/20/why-scientists-should-communicate-science-getting-to-the-heart-of-the-matter/