Guidelines for TMA Submission and Essay Writing

Instructions for TMA Submission

Please read these instructions carefully, and contact your tutor if you require any further clarifications. You should submit your completed assignment to your tutor to arrive no later than the.

A soft copy of your TMA must be uploaded to the university moodle within the indicated cut-off date. Please leave wide margins and space at the end of each sheet for tutor comments. It is better to use double spacing so that you can easily handwrite corrections to your drafts and tutors have space to include their feedback on the script. Start each question in the assignment on a new page. Any extended text should ideally be word-processed, but, diagrams and accompanying notes may be hand drawn and hand written and on an A4 paper.

When you have completed your TMA, you must fill in the assignment form (PT3), taking care to fill all information correctly including your personal identifier, course code, section & tutor, and assignment number. Each TMA and its PT3 form should be uploaded on the AOU branch moodle within the cut-off date. Late submissions require approval from the branch course coordinator and will be subject to grade deductions. All assignments are treated in strict confidence.

If you feel that you are unable to meet the cut-off date of the TMA because of unusual circumstances, please contact your tutor as soon as possible to discuss a possible extension to the cut-off date.

This TMA has one question with three parts. You should answer them all. The questions in this assignment are all about different aspects of the process of exploring a complex situation: drawing different kinds of maps of it, recognizing how complex it is, identifying the different perspectives it can be viewed from, and stepping back to reflect on this whole process of exploration to see the strengths and weaknesses of the approach you have adopted, and how you might do it better.

Question: Based on what you learned in, tackle the following questions and attempt to answer them using an essay format of no more than1200 words:

a.Now a day's information is very important to do any process in the society. Elaborate on how the health authorities could utilize information age to accomplish vaccinations campaign against current pandemic (COVID-19) (600 words, 50 % marks)

b- Assess how the health authorities could use the data about COVID-19, to protect communities from the second wave of the pandemic or COVID-20. (500 Words, 40% marks)

c-Reflect on the experiences of working on your TMA, and assess how it has developed your understanding of the course concept (100 words, 10 % marks)

General Mark’s deductions of 20% as follows

PT3 Form (failure to use the PT3 completely filled) (deduct up to 5% marks)

TMA Presentation and Structure, and word count    (untidy, work way below or above the word count, no display of word count) (deduct up to 5% marks)

Referencing and in-text citation (poor referencing and in-text citation, without plagiarism, (deduct up to 10% marks).