COHE 400: Community Health Engagement A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words This assignment aims to practice writing for and about communities and community health engagement.

Project #1: A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words

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COHE 400: Community Health Engagement

A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words

This assignment aims to practice writing for and about communities and community health engagement. You will write 1,000 words to achieve this goal by completing Part A (500 words) and various options from Part B (word counts vary). Be sure to read the directions carefully and complete the assignment.

Pre-work: Review the assignment to become familiar with the requirements. Choose a picture that represents the “community” to you. It should be an image that you can use to complete the assignment and discuss at length. Choose another photo if it is not suitable for the assignment. Copy the picture into your MS Word document, complete the assignment, and then save your Word document as a PDF. Make sure that you put your name at the top of the page.

Part A

For Part A, you will write two short essays that together equal precisely 500 words.

1. In exactly 300 words, describe the picture. Use these questions to guide your answer:

• What is in the image?
• In what state, town, or street was it taken?
• What day was it taken?
• What time did you take it?
• What do you think needs to be added to the picture? Why do you think it is missing?
• What is in the picture that should not be in the image? Why should it not be there?
• What feelings or emotions does the picture bring forth?

2. In exactly 200 words, describe two community health issues that may be of concern where the picture was taken. Use these questions to guide your answer:

• What are the issues?
• Why are they a concern?
• Who are they a concern for (e.g., stakeholders)?
• Are these issues specific to this community?
• Why are the issues significant to this community?
• What could be done to prevent the issues?

Part B

For Part B, you will choose from the following options to write the remaining 500 words.

• Author a poem or two that express how you feel about the picture (approximately 25–50 words).
• Create a flyer to promote a community meeting to discuss a significant health issue related to the image in the picture (approximately 25–50 words).
• Imagine that you live in the community where the picture was taken. Write a letter to the director of the local health department describing why the image is important to their community’s health (approximately 100 words).
• Imagine that you work at the county health department as a health education specialist. Write a short note to a community stakeholder from the community in the picture (approximately 100 words).
• Draw a picture that compliments your chosen image and write a short description of the picture (approximately 100 words).
• Share 3–5 famous quotes and their authors (find these online). Describe why you chose them, and how they evoke the same theme, feelings, or emotions as the picture (approximately 200 words).
• Describe how the scene will look in 20 years, and discuss why it will look that way (approximately 200 words).
• Describe how the scene looked 50 years ago, and why it looked that way (approximately 200 words).
• What role do the things or places in the image play in the lives of the community (approximately 200 words)?
• Discuss the importance of the image to the lives of the community (approximately 200 words). How important is it? Is it more important to one group than another? Why do you say so?
• Be creative! Create between 200–300 words, give the same feelings, emotions, or theme as the picture, and discuss why. This may be a song, a press release, a spoken word script, a limerick, a newspaper article, a short video… You may use this option up to two times.
• Share the name, artist, and lyrics of one song that gives the same feelings, emotions, or theme as the picture, and discuss why you chose those songs (approximately 300 words, including the lyrics).

Rubric

1,000 Words