Write a short article (around 500 words) for Massey News. Your target audience is the wider Massey community (i.e. public stakeholders). The brief for this article is to:
Discuss how the Massey Climate Action Play can demonstrate partnership between Mātauranga Māori and science
Use the following topic areas from the Massey University Climate Action Plan to be the overall theme of your article:
1 – Buildings and energy
For this assessment we want you to:
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Select at least one scientific journal article that covers credible information on the topic you are writing about. You will need to summarise relevant information in this source and discuss the science in the context of your topic area (science)
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Discuss how one or more of the key Mātauranga Māori concepts (kaitiakitanga, whakapapa, mana, mauri) is relevant to the overall theme you have selected (Te Ao Māori)
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Support your writing with citations to credible sources: these do not all have to be scholarly peer-reviewed sources (credibility)
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Include, as your references, the Massey Climate Action Plan and your source(s). This means you will need to cite the Massey Climate Action Plan as Massey University (2021)
This is how you are going to achieve this:
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Link the three elements outlined above (science, Te Ao Māori, credibility) in a short article of around 500 words:
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Introduce your topic to a general audience.
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You will need to summarise relevant science and discuss this in the context of your topic area from the Massey Climate Action Plan
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Explore the opportunity for partnership between Mātauranga Māori and the science you have discussed
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Bring your ideas together in a final paragraph that links your ideas to the wider concept of sustainability
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Structure the article in a way to best convey information clearly to the target audience, using appropriate language to engage that audience. The points above can represent four paragraphs in your submission
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Your writing should leave your reader with a clear take-home message
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Cite and provide references for the sources you used in APA 7 format. (Note that the reference section is not included in the word count.)