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Task decription, Science in the media

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Throughout your degree you have had experience writing in a particular style – usually for a fellow scientific audience, however, in a world of rapid media turnover there is a need to write about and present scientific concepts to a broader audience. In this task you will identify a ‘big picture’ issue in science that is of interest to you and that is relevant to your discipline / major area of study - for example, you could consider researching a recent study conducted by a professional in your field and reporting the findings of that research to answer to essential question

“why does this matter?” so it can be easily understood by a broad audience. You will then choose to report on this issue in writing or in a short video.

Option 1 - Written task: The Conversation is an online news source where academics and researchers provide easy-to-read articles about a wide range of topics. The aim is to make research and commentary from experts accessible to a wide range of readers. In ‘conversation style’, write about the scientific issue you have chosen in language appropriate for a non-scientific audience. This includes using words, literary techniques and sentence structure to engage your audience and generate interest. Your article should be approximately 600 words in length. This task is excellent preparation for the ‘conversation style’ piece you will be required to present in your Capstone course (to report on your own research to a non-scientific audience).

Useful Resources:

Eight writing tips that really work:

‘How to Easily Write Conversational Text’at

An example of an article in ‘The Conversation’

The Australian Government Science and Research Priorities

Answered Same Day May 19, 2020 3991SCG

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Endangered Animal Species and Extinction
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By definition, an endangered species is defined as a species that has been categorically been or on the verge to be extinct. Also as per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have also marked such Endangered (EN) species under the category of Red List and it is important to take some steps towards the severe conservation status while engaging and protecting the wild populations as per the IUCN's schema after being marked under the list of the Critically Endangered (CR) (Shapiro, 2017).
To review an endangered species is defined as a species which have been foresighted as Threatened zone and are likely to be few in counts or limited range. While considering the endangered species on a brink of extinction or most likely would be reduced to more significant numbers or range. They are also called as a threatened species. While the other part is called as an extinct species which use to exist on the Earth, but due to the natural calamities and the various climatic or environmental issues, their survival became impossible.  Such extinct species are the vanished part of the species that are no longer under the endangered or the threatened species list (Udall, 2016).  
As per the 2012 data of IUCN, there are estimated 3079 animal and 2655 plant species which have been marked under the red list worldwide and are likely on the verge of extinction. Backdated as per the 1998 statistics, they were just 1102 and 1197 in the count.

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