Category: English

INTRODUCTION: Use an attention-grabbing introduction that gives an overview of the topic and speaks to the specific sentiments or concerns of the audience you have chosen whilst also indicating your position
THESIS: Develop a clearly formulated, arguable thesis, including reasoning to support your position. In other words, your thesis should concisely give readers the reasons why your claim should be believed or why they should think/feel/act differently. 
TOPIC SENTENCES: Each paragraph should begin with a clear and effective topic sentence that foregrounds for the reader what is discussed in the subsequent paragraph.
EFFECTIVE PARAGRAPHS: The paper must include ordered, developed, cohesive, and coherent paragraphs that develop the argument by offering evidence and explanation in support of your position. Every sentence should contribute to the argument of its paragraph and the paper as a whole. Make sure, too, that the logical relationship between sentences is always clear and that body paragraphs identify supporting reasons, ideas, or examples for the claim.
COUNTERARGUMENTS: The essay must present and then respond to one or more counterarguments to your claim.
CONCLUSION: End with a conclusion that emphasizes the importance of taking the action or making the change recommended by the claim.
ACADEMIC STYLE: The essay should follow coherent organization between and within paragraphs, maintain appropriate style and tone suited to the purpose and audience of the argument, adhere to proper, ethical, and correct documentation for ALL sources (sources that have been carefully evaluated, of course), and observe correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization throughout
Requirements for the Final Draft
Maximum of 7 sources, including 4 scholarly sources, one primary source and one visual source.
Minimum 1,700 words 
Correct MLA formatting
Correct MLA in-text citations
Correct MLA Works Cited
I wrote soemthing already and this is what i got back i just need it fixed please
The essay is a good explanatory essay; however, this assignment calls for argument. Without a debatble thesis, the essay falls short on the argument. MLA format is needed for in-text citation and Works Cited page. 

Your Procedural Essay Must Include*: 
●      An introduction paragraph
●      A thesis statement
●      Proper formatting with indentations and numbered steps
●      Second Person Point of View
●      Transitions between each step
●      At least three examples of vocabulary relevant to your topic and defined, if needed
●      Language appropriate for your audience
●      Three adjective phrases throughout
●      Three examples of media (pictures) that supports or explains your procedures 

All instructions are in the files. Also, the novel’s name is Obasan by Joy Kogawa, and the ISBN number is: 9780735233706. An example is also in the files.

Example 1 ( puneetpal ) As a leader in the healthcare setting, there are various advocacy strategies that can be employed to effect positive change in the workplace. Firstly, fostering open communication channels with team members and actively listening to their concerns can help identify areas needing improvement (Robbins & Davidhizar, 2020). By advocating for regular staff meetings or forums, issues can be discussed openly, and collective solutions can be devised. Additionally, leading by example and demonstrating a commitment to patient-centered care can inspire others to prioritize patient needs and advocate for their rights. Furthermore, leveraging data and evidence-based practices can strengthen advocacy efforts. Presenting research findings or quality improvement data to stakeholders can highlight areas for improvement and garner support for necessary changes (Heinen et al., 2019). Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams and engaging stakeholders in decision-making processes can also enhance advocacy efforts and promote a shared vision for positive change.
One instance where I provided leadership was during the implementation of a new electronic health record (EHR) system in our healthcare facility. Recognizing the significant impact this change would have on workflow and patient care, I organized regular meetings with staff to discuss concerns and provide training opportunities. I also served as a liaison between frontline staff and IT specialists, advocating for necessary system modifications to improve usability and efficiency. Ultimately, through proactive communication and collaboration, we successfully transitioned to the new EHR system with minimal disruption to patient care.
Looking back, one aspect I would approach differently is ensuring more frequent check-ins with staff throughout the implementation process to address emerging issues promptly. Additionally, I would allocate more time for comprehensive training sessions to ensure staff felt confident and competent in using the new system from the outset. Overall, the experience taught me the importance of proactive leadership and ongoing communication in facilitating successful change initiatives.
References
Robbins, B., & Davidhizar, R. (2020). Transformational leadership in health care today. The Health Care Manager, 39(3), 117-121.
Heinen, M., van Oostveen, C., Peters, J., Vermeulen, H., & Huis, A. (2019). An integrative review of leadership competencies and attributes in advanced nursing practice. Journal of advanced nursing, 75(11), 2378-2392.
Example 2 (Adriana) Health care leaders within the organization must evolve simultaneously with society to meet the changing demands. Nurse leaders can seek out evidence-based practices to be implemented to help determine patient outcomes and safety (Helbig, 2022). Proactive nursing leaders help guide and assist the evolution of healthcare. Nurse leaders participate in maintaining budget costs, monitor supply and demand, and assess patient and staff satisfaction. Nurse leaders play a vital role in every corner of healthcare. As the nursing scope evolves to meet healthcare demands, nurses can promote health equity for all (Azar, 2021). Nurses can provide unique perspectives and expertise within public health crises and beyond. Nurse leaders can create a rapport with other healthcare disciplines to foster a collaborative environment to discuss potential interventions to help meet society demands in hopes of increasing optimal patient outcomes. Nurse leaders can participate in local & national legislation to encourage discussions to ensure nurses are heard and shared among other disciplines (Azar, 2021). Nurse leaders can identify potential barriers that may limit certain communities from achieving quality healthcare. A recent example where I provided leadership within my role was in an interdisciplinary team meeting regarding a patient’s care. As a float, I visit different sites and need to learn about new patients constantly. I was brought into a situation that required various disciplines to provide care within a short period due to frequent hospital visits and falls. As case manager, I took the lead in providing direction and input in what needed to prioritize while ensuring the patient is safe. Coordinating transportation and facility placement proved difficult due to the patient’s noncompliance with the recommended treatment plans which became an additional barrier once the patient was discharged. Eventually, the patient was able to be placed while they recuperated from a stroke. What I would do differently is proactively work the inpatient team earlier in discussing potential discharge barriers as safety was the main issue for their home environment and to expedite facility placement. Reference:
Azar K. M. J. (2021). The Evolving Role of Nurse Leadership in the Fight for Health Equity. Nurse leader, 19(6), 571–575. Helbig, J. (2022). Reengineering health care management. In Grand Canyon University (Ed.), Nursing Leadership & Management: Leading and Serving (3rd Edition).
As healthcare continues to evolve, outlining the role of what it means to be a nurse leader must be supported from all avenues in healthcare to ensure nurses are empowered to take on more leadership roles. Example 3 (Melanie) Whether in a “fromal”, titled role in a leasdership position, or in day to day practice, the Professional nurse is a strong advocate within their workforce. With their unique role within healthcare, often as fronline providers, nurses have the opportunity to advocate and create posisitive change. Advocacy allows professional nurses to assist individuals, (patients, as well as staff) to express their views, wishes and help defend their rights (mind.org, 2024). As an advocate, the professional nurses may provide information to help patients and team members make decisions, lend support and present options, as well as assist in making contacts or connections on someones behalf (mind.org, 2024). Developing and implementing advocacy strategies as a professional nurse leader are necessary to create positive change, It is important to remember when creating change to collaborate with team members (mrbeasleysaigsite.com, 2024). Collaboration allows for effective and productive communication while developing important relationships (mrbeasleysaigsite.com, 2024). Maintaining honesty regarding strengths and weaknesses allows for constructive feedback and improvement, and always approach teamembers with repect and positive attitude (mrbeasleysaigsite.com, 2024). Creating change through advocacy is an essential part of professional nursing that dooes not require a title. As nurses, we advocate daily for those who cannot speak for themselves, We speak up for the vulnerable, help coordinate care, and often lend a voice on someones behalf.
References
Mind.org (2024). Advocacy in Mental Health. www.mind.org.uk
Mr.Beasleysaigsite.weebly (2024). Top 10 Effective Adcocay Strategies. https://mrbeasleysaigsite.weebly.com

You may write over any topic you wish. Your purpose can be informative or persuasive, it is up to you. The only requirement is that your sources must come from Lamar’s library. You may write about historical, political, social, or literary issues. If you’re still having difficulty thinking of something to write about, here several sample topics to begin narrowing down into something highly specific. Research Paper Topics on Environment How did climate change in the recent 30 years? Why do some believe global warming to be a hoax? What are the best ways to reduce global warming? How does global warming alter wildlife? Ocean pollution: unseen tragedies. Effective ways of reducing air pollution. How can alternative types of energy help to preserve Earth natural resources? Endangered species – how can we preserve them? Recycling. What did you do to make the world a better place? Drinking water for all – how can we achieve it? Research Paper Topics on Legal Issues How do torrenting sites influence creativity and copyright? Should marijuana be legalized on the governmental level? How did legalization of the same-sex marriages influence the USA? Are punishments for sex crimes fair? Should there be a law preventing cyber bullying? Where is the line between artistic photos and pornography? How does a new adoption law in Russia refuse orphans their chance for happiness? Various laws on abortion around the world. Countries with effective legal execution. How do prostitution laws differ around the world? Research Paper Topics on Religion Is Christianity at its dusk? Can any religion justify crimes against humanity? The most popular new age religions. Sexual abuse in the church. Should religious beliefs influence health matters? How do various religions oppress women? The political context of the global religions throughout time. How does agnosticism balance between atheism and various religions? Are we witnessing a new religion forming? Myths of creation through global religions. Research Paper Topics on Health Effect of alcohol, Tabaco, and marijuana on a human body. Vaccination in the 21st century. The most controversial issues of birth control. Alzheimer’s: ways of prevention. Euthanasia – an assisted suicide? How can research help cure AIDS? Are there effective ways to prevent cancer? How do fats positively affect human body and mind? Anorexia and obesity – two sides of one story. The importance of mental health. Research Paper Topics on Social Issues How do social media influence interpersonal communication? How can team sports affect social abilities? LGBT tolerance around the world. Global citizenship: pros and cons. How to deal with social anxiety? How can one defend privacy issues on Facebook and other social media? How to stop bullying in schools? Discrimination of the black women in modern day America. Ethnicities that created the USA. Gender stereotypes in the workplace. Research Paper Topics on Education How to achieve literacy for all? Is it worth it to go into a huge debt to achieve higher education in the USA? How can the government make teacher’s profession become more appealing? How can we modernize education to make it more appealing? How does dress code in schools discriminate women? What are advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling? Is present educational system capable of creating geniuses? The importance of multilingual education. Guns in school. How to achieve safe environment. Do grades do justice to students’ knowledge? Research Paper Topics on Popular Culture The best music projects of 2016. How do reality shows influence teenagers? Do celebrities form a specific cast in today’s world?

Please read the Newsela article attached and answer the questions in the second attached
assignment.

You have completed English Composition I! In as much as reflection is a genre, it is also an action—one of the most important actions of the writing process. Writing a reflection does not mean that you focus on what you would have changed or what you may have failed at doing; instead, a reflection should be a holistic assessment of an experience so that you can apply those lessons to the next experience. 
You have written two essays for this course. Please reflect upon your experience in English Composition I by addressing the following questions. You do not have to address all of them or address them in order. 
What was your most successful essay in this course? You may want to judge that based upon your instructor’s assessment, but it would be more beneficial for you to base this upon what you feel is your best work. What was it that made this essay so successful for you? 
What kinds of elements do you consider when thinking about what makes a successful essay? After listing some of those attributes, how does your “most successful” essay match up with these elements? In what ways does it fall short? 
What would you have done differently when writing the essay you deemed less successful than the other? In thinking about what you would have changed, did you really have the opportunity to make that change at the time? Why, or why not? 
What have you learned about the writing process? How has the emergence or, at least, definition of that process changed how you write, if at all? 
What was your favorite thing that we did in the course? Why? What was the least appealing thing we did in the course? Why? What revisions would you suggest for this course to make it more impactful? 
Think about Part III of the discussion board in Unit I that asked you to consider your greatest strengths and weaknesses as a writer and to anticipate the greatest challenges you would face in this course. Now that you have completed the class, have your answers to these questions changed? If so, how? 

Notes on your five sources
Look for sources for your research project.
Use the CRAAP test and/or the SIFT test to make sure they are reliable.
Write up your evaluation. Why is it a good source? 
Find five good sources.
Read/watch each source.
Take notes on each source – you can take notes on another piece of paper, create an outline, print them out and annotate them, create a graphic organizer to keep track of the information, or do whatever else works for you.
Bring your notes to class with you. Don’t forget to include the bibliographic information, too (the title, author, date of publication, etc)    
Annotated Bibliography Instructions:
What is an Annotated Bibliography?
“Bibliography” – a list of sources referenced in a scholarly work. 
“Annotated” – adding notes, comments, observations, evaluations. 
An Annotated Bibliography (AB) is a document that helps you keep track of your sources and reflect on them in the context of your research. Each entry in your (AB) will include four components: an evaluation of the credibility of the source, a citation, a summary of the source, and a reflection on how the source is helpful to your research. Please see below for a template showing the components of an Annotated Bibliography entry. Flip this paper over for an example.
Keep in mind that you’ll be doing an entry for each of the sources you plan to use. You are required to use a minimum of five sources.
Components of an Annotated Bibliography: 
Evaluation 
In this section, you will provide a rationale for using this source in your research. Use the CRAAP test and/or the SIFT test to explain why this is a credible and reliable source.  Imagine someone is arguing that it is not appropriate for your action project research. Prove that it is. You want to do this first so that you don’t spend time on a source that isn’t credible. 
Citation
Create an MLA-formatted citation for each source. This citation might include the title, author, publisher, date of publication, and more. What goes in the citation will depend on the source. Don’t forget about Purdue Owl and CAS if you need help with this!
Summary 
For the summary section you’ll explain what type of source it is (a blog, a newspaper article, a journal article, a video, a website, etc.) and then summarize the article in your own words and include the author’s main arguments, being sure to mention key information and topics covered. Include a discussion of the evidence used by the author.
Reflection
Once you’ve summarized your source, reflect on how the information fits into your research. Write about how relevant this source is, how it answers your inquiry questions, how it connects to your other sources, how it confirms or contradicts information in your other sources, and how it leads to further questions or areas of interest. You’ll want to save this step for last because you won’t know for sure how a source fits into your research until you’ve read/watched/listened to it.  
Annotated Bibliography Entry #1 example
My Topic: I am researching how Native Americans are portrayed in current TV and films.
“An Examination of Native Americans in Film and Rise of Native Filmmakers” by Julia Boyd
Evaluation 
I find this source credible for my research. Published in 2015, it is not as current as I would like, but it will help me show a progression of how representation has changed over the years. It is definitely relevant to my topic, and it is an appropriate level for my level of expertise. It is from a reliable educational institution, and the author cites her many sources. The author is a student, but for my purposes, that is okay. She clearly did her work and the article was chosen to be included in the journal. It is safe to say that she knows more than I do about the subject. There are no links since it is a print article, but I was able to find numerous other helpful sources in the works cited list. The purpose of the article is to inform.
Citation
Boyd, Julia. “An Examination of Native Americans in Film and Rise of Native Filmmakers.” The Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015, pp. 105-113.
Summary 
This short article traces the portrayal of Native Americans in film from the 1930s to 2014.  It shows a connection between earlier portrayals in popular literature, like James Fennimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans, to modern films, like The Lone Ranger.  The article highlights multiple issues with the portrayal of Native Americans in film First, Natives have been portrayed as either the “blood-thirsty savage” or the “noble savage,” neither of which is an accurate view. Secondly, they have been stereotyped and simplified into one mass community rather than being portrayed as individual and unique tribes. Thirdly, they have been played by white actors, such as Raquel Welch and Johnny Depp, furthering a Eurocentric standard of beauty. In recent decades, indigenous people have started telling their own stories, so there has been improvement in the area of representation and portrayal, but there is still a long way to go.
Reflection
This was a good first article for me to read because it gives an overview, and it provides plenty of sources in the works cited list.  It connects to some of my other sources because I have a couple of radio interviews that are about two of the movies mentioned here: Smoke Signals and The Lone Ranger. It was helpful because it laid out the issues surrounding Native American in the film industry so that when I analyze portrayals, I can more clearly understand an articulate how a particular film is doing with representing Natives. Since it is an older article, it doesn’t include more recent films, such as Wild Indian or the newest Predator film Prey, but I plan to use this as a baseline for the rest of my research and will come back to it for information and resources.
Topic is The Urgent Need to Redesign Education for the 21st Century

Assignment 2: Whiteness Deconstructed
Assignment goal
Discuss the construction of whiteness.
Apply an understanding of whiteness to societal structures.
Instructions
Read the OER chapter on whiteness, watch the video, and and answer the following:
How has whiteness changed over time?
Give examples of how whiteness is institutionalized. Provide at least 2 examples. (hint: you can use the definition of institutional racism in this chapter or from the Black American module)
What is Possessive Investment in Whiteness and what are examples of this in this chapter/video? Provide at least 2 examples.
How does white supremacy compare/relate to people of color histories and inequalities/inequities? (this can be answered in relation to the course up until this point citing specific examples ONLY from course materials and connecting the understanding of white supremacy from this chapter. this can also be answered solely using this week’s materials)
Use the rubric to guide your work.
Post your assignment to Canvas assignment #2 Whiteness Deconstructed
Grading Criteria
Please see rubric. This will include:
answers the prompts
including direct examples ONLY from the chapter (Hodges, 2023) or video that appropriately reflects the task and cites each example
makes the connection between institutional racism and whiteness (rather than just interpersonal racism)
when asked, makes appropriate course connections using only course materials with this week’s material

Objective of the Assignment:
The Signature Assignment is designed to assess Personal Responsibility and Written Communication, the learning objectives designated for assessment in the Language, Philosophy, & Culture Core Component. This skill set entails connecting choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making. It requires students to be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions. For this course, students will craft a 2-part writing assignment.
Part II:
Students will craft an essay of 3 pages (4 pages max) that focuses on a precise ethical dilemma articulated in one or more of the assigned course readings. Drawing on the assigned readings, course discussions, and further research, students must:
Clearly identify and describe at least two distinct positions on the dilemma, making sure to contextualize them historically and culturally.
Articulate a clear and coherent thesis statement in which they apply these perspectives to take a position on the dilemma. The analysis must connect specific choices and actions with consequences for specific populations within the Latino community.
Students should foreground the structure of the essay in the introductory paragraph, by connecting at least 3 specific choices or actions to consequences for the chosen community.
The essay must adhere to a logical organization marked concretely with strong topic sentences, employ concrete evidence from the assigned texts to support the argument, and consider the ethical significance of the argument in a concluding paragraph.
Assignment Formatting:
Include Cover Page Part I that clearly list Name, Course, Section #, and Assignment title.
Your font must be size 12 and Times New Roman.
The margins (1” on each side), indents, and double space.
MLA parenthetical citations and include a reference page.
USE ACTIVE VOICE TO WRITE IN CLEAR AND CONCISE LANGUAGE.
please use this book as your reference:
https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.uhd.idm.oclc.org/lib/uhdowntown/detail.action?docID=6046029