700 words Op-Ed Piece

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.