Dietary Analysis Project reports
The Final DAP Summary is an in-depth, comprehensive essay summary that covers:
- ALL the content from your Dietary Analysis Project reports
- Your textbook course content
- Information you obtained over the semester from analyzing your food intake and exercise habits
Essay process:
- Review the core competencies skills the essay assesses below
- Review and include detailed discussions about your specific DAP Reports
- Write a minimum 750- 1200 word essay in a (.docx) document ahead of time, using correct grammar and spelling.
- You will attach your essay document assignment file to your submission
This essay is a comprehensive evaluation showing you mastered the course learning objectives and possess the core intellectual competency (listed below) as it relates to your nutrition. Specific references to your individual report values must be addressed. The essay assesses:
a) Critical Thinking Skills – to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
b) Communication Skills – to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication
c) Empirical and Quantitative Skills – to include the manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions
d) Social Responsibility – to include inter cultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.
Answer the questions below as well as include all the elements critical thinking skills, communication skills, empirical and quantitative skills and your social responsibility impact:
- What specific modifications or changes could you make to improve your current eating habits, exercise habits, and current lifestyle choices?
- How does your nutrition & fitness plan impact your personal, economic health as well impact your social/society responsibility as a whole?
- Please be specific about what foods, nutrients and changes in behaviors you will do, making sure to address all the nutrients that were out of the recommendations.
*Make sure you use all components from your DAP project reports in your project summary. This is not just a generalized assessment and should be specific for your nutrient changes needed. See grading rubric for how points will be awarded.
Rubric
Name: Rubric Dietary Analysis Project (DAP) Final Essay
Description: This rubric will be used to grade the Final DAP essay Plagiarism software will be used to confirm academic honesty. Confirmed cases of academic dishonesty will receive a zero for the assignment plus an additional 10% points penalty.
NoviceCompetentProficientSpelling and GrammarPoints Range:0 (0.00%) – 9 (9.00%)Numerous spelling or grammatical errorsPoints Range:10 (10.00%) – 14 (14.00%)1 or 2 spelling or grammatical errorsPoints Range:15 (15.00%) – 15 (15.00%)No spelling or grammatical errorsContentPoints Range:2 (2.00%) – 18 (18.00%)Minimal details as appropriate (exercise, alcohol, portion of macro and micronutrients low/high in discussion) or connecting the foods to add/delete based on low/high macro/micronutrients, may lack personal example showing application of course content. May not address exercise, economic or societal impact of changes. Does not show clear connection or understanding of content shown by unable to apply appropriate example that show understanding and application of course concepts.Points Range:19 (19.00%) – 45 (45.00%)Missing a few details as appropriate (exercise, alcohol, portion of macro and micronutrients low/high in discussion missing with foods rich in nutrients) and/or lacking discussion of economic and/or societal impact. Some nutrients outside of normal range discussed, leaving a portion of nutrients out of essay. May lack clear connection of content to application of personal dietary and exercise changes.Points Range:46 (46.00%) – 55 (55.00%)Presents full details as appropriate (includes alcohol, exercise, all macro and micronutrients low/high in discussion). Establishes a clear connection with DAP reports and changes needed to improve nutritional and fitness health. Discusses all content from DAP reports outside of normal range (including vitamins and minerals and foods to add/delete to align with recommendations), discusses societal and economic impact of personal changes that show the application of conceptsWord Content/LengthPoints Range:2 (2.00%) – 5 (5.00%)399 words or underPoints Range:6 (6.00%) – 19 (19.00%)400 to 749 wordsPoints Range:20 (20.00%) – 30 (30.00%)750 – 1000 words
