Writing Assignment:

This week is all about data!  Your critical skills assignment focuses on the basic skills needed to manipulate quantitative (numerical measurements) data.  For this weeks writing assignment, you will test your skills at interpreting data.  Below is a chart that shows Child mortality rates in percentage of the world population that live past 5 years of age (or conversely, those that die under 5 years of age). 

Using your research skills, interpret the graph below to tell me what we are looking at, and importantly, what does it mean?  Is there a point in time where the rate of child mortality was rose or dropped quickly?  What type of relationship is shown below?  In no more than 2 pages (you can use an additional citation page as a 3rd page) explain what you see in the graph below.  Take the next step and research at least 1 article that might provide you insight as to why this trend has developed.  Make sure to either research something independently, or use the provided article as a resource to get you started.

Different types of writing features different styles.  So far we wrote in the first person and told a story, and then in third person.  Data analysis should generally be very concise and told in the third person (i.e. short sweet and to the point).  The main objective here is to TRY to keep the page count to a minimum, and dont use 3 sentences to say something that can be said in 1.  Give an overview of what is shown and what trend you see, and then put on your critical thinking hat to come up with why this may have changed on a global scale.

For this assignment, you do NOT need to fully format your paper in APA.  Please use APA in text citations (if you have references you are pointing me to), an APA citation or references page, and use 12 point font of your choosing with 1 inch margins to complete this assignment.