Month: February 2016

• Quoting
o Need to have sufficient context!
 Just placing quotes into your writing (orphan quotes) does not make it clear enough to the reader what the quote means in regards to your topic/main idea
o Keep the ideas attached to the people, make it clear why you’re saying it
 Quotation sandwich:
• Introduce the quote (author, type of publication, why that quote)
• Say the quote
• Interpretation of the quote ( give explanations, tie it together with your point to make sure the reader understands what you were intending them to get out of it)
o Your job is to give the quote meaning
• How to decide to quote vs. paraphrase
o If the language of what you’re quoting is central to what you are talking about, you need to quote
o If you don’t want to be associated with the quote of have people confuse you as the person saying it
o If someone says something so elegantly that you don’t want to alter it at all
o Honestly, it’s a judgment call by you as a writer
 Need to consider emphasis (use sparingly, no more than 1 per page as a general rule)
 ONLY QUOTE WHEN YOU HAVE A REASON TO DO SO
 IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE QUOTE, DON’T USE IT!
• How to take notes
o Look at handout
o Use intentional effort and give what you are reading some thought
• To do for Wednesday
o Take notes in an intentional method on your article and email it
o Make a quotation sandwich for a quote from the article

1. I am interested in how end-of-life care is incorporated into public health as well as its effect on the loved ones of the person that is terminal. I’m also curious to see how income effects the availability of ideal end-of-life care situations.
2. End-of-life-care, family members, problems, terminal, hospice, public health, poverty, conditions, hospital, palliative
3. Author: Jeroen Hasselaar and Sheila Payne
Title: Moving the integration of palliative care from idea to practice
Place of publication: Sage Journals
Url: http://pmj.sagepub.com/content/30/3/197.full

4. This article is basically a call-to-action. The author present was resources and ideas we have available to improve care for terminal people and say that there is a need. They point out that although some measures have been taken, we need to and can take more. The authors use the “borrowing technique” by siting many other sources in their article. They us the sources to support their claims that there is more we need to do and that we know what to do next. There isn’t really much illustrating being done because he doesn’t in my opinion really inforce the fact that this is a problem. Extending is used a little when they use their sources to try to prove that there is something that we could do that we aren’t.

1. Im interested in where these issues and conversations bump into each other: how effective do family members find hospice care? how much confidence do they have in this form of care?
2. Useful search terms: hospice care, public health, effects on family
3. Here’s an article I found: Family evaluation of hospice care: Examining direct and indirect associations with overall satisfaction and caregiver confidence, Written by Jason M. Holland in the Palliative and Supportive Care Journal.
4. The research in this piece uses a lot of data and numbers. The piece goes on to contextualize this data and research by the end of the piece. A large portion of the piece is explaining how exactly the research worked. At the end, there is a results section as well as a discussion section. This is where the contextualizing of the research and data takes place.

 

 

 

http://nq5hl7cp9d.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Family+evaluation+of+hospice+care%3A+Examining+direct+and+indirect+associations+with+overall+satisfaction+and+caregiver+confidence&rft.jtitle=Palliative+and+Supportive+Care&rft.au=Holland%2C+Jason+M&rft.au=Keene%2C+Jennifer+R&rft.au=Kirkendall%2C+Abbie&rft.au=Luna%2C+Nora&rft.date=2015-08-01&rft.issn=1478-9515&rft.eissn=1478-9523&rft.volume=13&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=901&rft.epage=908&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017%2FS1478951514000595&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=53224718&paramdict=en-US

I’m interested in where these issues/conversations bump into each other:
Elderly lives and what keeps them going and the intersections that race and class have with the two.

Here is an article I’ve found at this intersection (include title, author, place of publication, not just a url): “The Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and Quality of Life Among Elderly People,” Ali, Marhemat, Sara, & Hamid, 2015, in Holistic Nursing Practice, May/June 2015.

Here’s how research is working in this article (using Harris’s terminology): This article is a description and presentation of a study. Thus, there is research at play throughout this entire piece. Apart from the visual research portrayed through the graphs and tables, there is also the written research descriptions and assessments throughout the piece. Ali, et al, relies heavily on numbers to show to the reader that the conclusions they are drawing are statistically correct and cannot be disproven unless their research methods were faulty. Based on the heavy use of numbers, I am inclined to believe that the authors are writing this piece for a more academic and scholarly audience, because the average person does not know what all these numbers mean in context to the study. Thus, while this article may be heavy on numbers, it is not exactly an article that would get me closer to finding out what I need to know/writing my Unit 2 paper.

I am very much interested in researching the root causes and solutions to obesity. I want to know why it is more prevalent in the United States than in other developed countries. Is it cultural? Is it related to how our healthcare system operates? Is it what or how we eat/drink? Some useful search terms I have used are “causes of American obesity” “leading cause of obesity” “when did obesity epidemic began.” An interesting article I came across was “Epidemic of Obesity in U.S. Kids Began in Late 90s” from U.S. News and World Report written by Ellin Holohan. This text does a good job of authorizing. The author cites a study done by independent researchers. She directly quotes that researcher to help the reader understand the context. Throughout the entire text, there are quotes from the various researchers. She also gives a fairly lengthy description of the researchers background to add credibility to the author’s argument.

 

Here is the link: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/07/21/epidemic-of-obesity-in-us-kids-began-in-late-90s

Unit 2: Where we’re headed

• Locating and using research
• End goal is your “Research Brief”

o   very focused analysis of a single scholarly article that connects with questions you are becoming interested in as a result of your service work

Scholarly Texts

• Author is expert in the field
• Style is academic

o   Narrowly defined purpose and audience

o   No need for general audience appeal

• Research is significant and well-documented
• “Peer-reviewed”—other certified experts in the field have endorsed

 

Chapter 2, “Rewriting”

Forwarding

• When responding to a text, your not sending a response back to the author, instead you are forwarding information to others
• Content can change depending on who is forwarding information and who is receiving forwarded information

 

Forwarding depends on:

• Coming to terms with the text

o   Define the project

o   Note keywords/passages

o   Assess the uses and limits (what’s useful? what are some issues?)

• Recirculation—-“rewriting”

 

Moves in using research

• Using texts to think about

o   Illustrating- examples

o   Contextualizing- historical/statistical

• Using texts to think with

o   Authorizing- validation through expertise

o   Borrowing- using other’s theories/terminologies

o   Extending- putting your spin on concepts from other texts

 

Getting ready to turn in Research Brief

• Choose topic
• Find articles
• Read to be conversant
• Figure out genre
• Write it