Internal Code: TV448
Essay Writing Help:
Task:
Overview of a possible way of constructing the paper
Title: Give your paper an interesting, relevant title
Introduction: 150 words
The introduction should serve as a roadmap for your paper that tells the reader what your paper will be about, the method you used and provide a taste of what your argument is and findings are.
Overview: 450 words
This section should provide a summary of the facts and statistics that relate to the ‘community’ that will be your focus in this paper. You may report on the costs, but remember costs are not just financial, think about the human and the social costs too. These statistics should be geared towards indicating why it is that the needs of your ‘participant group’ are important and should argue for the necessity of community development.
*Note that the lists below are not exhaustive*
Here you might find useful information on websites such as
· Australian Bureau of Statistics
· Amnesty
· The United Nations
· World Health Organisation
Or in Government reports and inquiries or Royal Commissions such as
· Bringing them Home
· The Nyland Report
· The Royal Commission into Child Abuse
· The Mullighan Inquiry
Or is quality newspaper articles from publications such as
· The Conversation
· Koori Mail
· The Australian
· The Stringer
Or organisational websites such as
· Beyond Blue
· SA Health
· Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
· Community Centres SA
· Australian Conservation Foundation
The listed resources above are not exhaustive, but are an indication of the sort of resource you can use in this section. Importantly, the resources used must be of ‘quality’. It is important to use information that is both recent and relevant.
*In the Overview section, as long as you have used at least 4 of the more ‘official’ type of resources listed above you can also use the evidence of existing grass-roots organisations. For example;
· 350.org
· Aboriginal Tent Embassy
· Sisters Inside, Flat Out, Seeds of Affinity
· Chilout
· Australian Farmers Market Association
· Australian Nuclear Free Alliance
Community development: 750 words
There are many ways that this section can be written, there is a lot of scope and no one ‘correct’ way of approaching this. This is a section where you could potentially critically discuss
· Theories of community development
· The history of community development
· How/why do/can people benefit from a sense of belonging that can be found in community
· A critique of neoliberalism and globalisation—relate back to community and your ‘data’
· A critique of or praise of previous community development projects (or both)
· The relationship between social work and community development
· Human rights as they relate to community development
· Rights from below
· Radical social work—link to community, social movements, activism
· Charity vs Rights
· Oppression: Does membership of a certain race, gender, class, age and (dis)ability group impact of the experiences of the ‘community’ discussed in this paper. Can community participation challenge oppression?
· Challenging oppression through social movements, or learning from social movements
· What does the AASW Code of Ethics say about ‘community’ and community development, how does that relate to your own observations or experiences
· Other Photovoice projects that were used with a community like the one in this paper
· Other arts-based community development initiatives that have been used with a community similar to the one you are writing about
· The theory behind and/or the benefits of using arts-based approaches is community development
· Green Social Work. Why should community development social workers be ‘green’, or focus on ‘green’ issues
· Social worker as activist
This list is not exhaustive, you may think of your own points to discuss. I would recommend that you choose around 3-4 of these areas to focus on.
The best papers will ensure that there is a ‘golden thread’ where concepts are linked, both in this section, and more broadly to the rest of the paper.