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BROCHURE OBJECTIVES

The UMKC School of Nursing website seemed a little stiff in its approach to attracting nursing students, or possibly very formal. The website talked about the history of the school with important dates also about the mission of the school which looked like a to do list. They also had a section that had a vision, values, and goals. The website was professional however it didn’t intrigue me into the university itself. On the other hand, the University of Rochester Medical Center URMC seemed more personal. It had a link that was under nursing recruitment called why choose Strong Nursing in which the actual hospital is part of the university itself. It gace actual statistics and facts that I think is more sound than opinions. It says something to mas a reader. This web page seemed more personal and attracted me as a reader.

            DEFINING OBJECTIVES

Overall Purpose

1. What are you writing?

·         I am writing a blog entry about website that try to recruit projected students in the nursing major.

2. What prompts you to write?

·         I was prompted because it is a required weekly blog entry and assignment for my ENG 333 course.

3. What outcome do you desire?

·         To complete a blog entry that discusses different approaches of writing and layout of websites of different universities and see their pros and cons. This should help me find possible improvement to USM nursing site.

4. What outcome does your reader desire?

·         To see my point of view as a nursing student and how I see these universities advertising.

Reader Profile

1. Who is your primary reader?

·         Other students taking ENG 333 who would be reading my blog.

2. What is your reader’s relationship to you?

·         Fellow students enrolled in ENG 333.

3. What are your reader’s job title and responsibilities?

·         Job title may vary however they all are current students enrolled at USM taking ENG 333 and are responsible to write blog entries on the same topic and respond to other student blogs.

4. Who else might read your communication?

·         My ENG 333 instructor.

5. How familiar is your reader with your subject?

·         They all will have to complete the same type of blog entry however on different majors or possible the same major.

6. How familiar is your reader with your specialty?

·         I am not sure how many of the reader are familiar with my specialty if any.

7. Does your reader have any communication preferences you should take

into account?

·         This is a college level course writing intensive, which should be at the same reading level.

8. Should you take into account any other things about your reader when

writing?

·         That the reader may not be a nursing major and not have the same desires as I do as a nursing student and what I would like to see or read.

Situational Analysis

1. What events and circumstances influence the way you should write?

·         The type of writing that is expected of me, who is the reader and what do they want or expect  to read, and what is calling you to write.

Usability Objectives (Reader’s Tasks)

1. What are the key questions your reader will ask while reading?

·         Is this a general need for all nursing students or is this a personal need.

2. How will your reader search for the answer? (The reader may use more

than one strategy.)

__X__ Sequential reading from beginning to end

____ Selective reading, as when using a reference book (what key terms

will your reader look for?)

From Paul V. Anderson’s Technical Communication: A Reader-Centered Approach

____ Other (explain)

3. How will your reader use the information you provide?

__X__ Compare point by point (what will be the points of comparison?)

____ Attempt to determine how the information you provide will affect

him or her

____ Attempt to determine how the information you provide will affect his

or her organization

____ Follow instructions step by step

____ Other (explain)

Persuasive Objectives (Reader’s Attitudes)

1. What is your reader’s attitude toward your subject? Why? What do you

want it to be?

·         I would like my reader’s attitude toward my subject be one of understanding and share similar needs so that they may help USM department attract more students.

Stakeholders

1. Who, besides your readers, are stakeholders in your communication?

·         The websites I have chosen, USM nursing department.

2. How will they be affected by it?

·         I am writing my opinion on the worldwide web about these websites.

Constraints

1. What expectations, regulations, or other factors limit the way you can

write?

·         The guidelines to this writing assignment and what my instructor expects of me.

I think it is important to keep in mind that students are reading these web pages and they often want to know what this school can do for them and how this school is better than others. What can you do for me approach.

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/strong-nursing/recruitment/why-strong.cfm

http://nursing.umkc.edu/our-school/about-us.asp

Week 3: First Project

At first glance I was not feeling overwhelmed at all by this project. Then after reading the instructions and trying to find a paper that I have completed I am feeling a little intimated. I am having a hard time picking a paper that I feel would apply to this project. During nursing school I haven't had to write too many papers per say. However, we do a lot of writing as far as charting our patients information. These can be up to a hundred pages long and are filled in within one night. I keep telling myself I can do that I can do any writing assignment. To have to analyze a paper and turn it into a 3 to 5 page paper seem longer than my care plan for some reason. :) Not going to focus on that too long. Generally that is my only concern and I don't feel that I can not complete this project. I just need to answer each question one at a time and stay focused so I don't get overwhelmed.

Week Two Blog

With my major being nursing, we often have to read and write papers on nursing journals. These are journals written to discuss different topics or issues in health care. In which, a nursing performs a case study and shares the results of this. One nursing journal in particular I had to read the nurse was discussing risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus in a population of children in public schools. A population is meant to represent all children in public schools by comparing statistics within a smaller group of people.

Personally as a person who lives in the southern United States, I know that is a particular issue for people in our area. This has now spread to our youth and with Mississippi being the leader in all the states. This topic raises concern because until recent times children have not been a concern with this disease. However it is now a worldwide issue. I believe the writer’s motive for writing this journal was to address preventive interventions that health care workers can promote and prevent this epidemic. What is at stake is the health and future of our youth. The writers are a group of nurses Suyanne Freire de Macedo; Márcio Flávio Moura de Araújo; Niciane Pessoa Bandeira Marinho; Adman Câmara Soares Lima; Roberto Wagner Freire de Freitas; Marta Maria Coelho Damasceno. These nurses background include all are RN with a master’s degree from Universidade Federal do Ceará, CE, Brazil. This article was published through a nursing journals publisher called Scielo. Scielo publishes academic nursing journals with the intent to educate other nurses and health care workers through documentation of facts in relation to case studies.

I believe that the writers call to write was to address the concern for preventive health care directed towards school age children in hopes to prevent type two diabetes mellitus. The writers points out the need for public policies to help fight risk factors associate with diabetes type two. Through different inventions like programs that would address exercise and weight control in our youth. If we prevent this disease or identify children at risk health care would have better results for these children.

            The writer’s language is use of medical terms in the form of a scholarly journal. The writer’s tone is that of someone who is concern for the health of our youth expressing this with scientific statistics and evidence. I believe the writer’s are addressing several groups of people. They are addressing nurses, nursing students, educational groups that could fund public policies, and school workers. Overall, I believe the writer’s did very well address this is and conveyed significant information and statistics that supported the overall purpose of this writing. The writer’s could have shared possible information about communities that have incorporated these preventive measures and what results may have came from that to make the journal overall more well rounded. However, after reading this journal and the statistics it definitely made me raise my eyebrows to this issues and even more so as a mother of two.

Week 1 BLOG: INTRO

          To begin I will introduce myself, I am Stephanie an undergraduate in the College of Nursing at USM. My current job title is full-time student and more than full-time mother of two. I have a five year old daughter and a one month old son. I hope to one day be a nurse practitioner working in pediatrics. I enjoy spending time with my family and working on my degree. This course does not contribute to my degree, however, I am hoping to gain some personal experience through this course.

            There are all kinds of writing, however, within my major I regularly have to write care plans for my patients when we go to clinical days. When I go to a clinical day we have to document on the computer medical information about our patients. This is considered charting and can be a lengthy summary about the patient’s health. This type of writing is required of me, although, I enjoy writing in my journal. My journal allows me to write down thoughts and feelings from my own perspective of life. When I journal my day or whatever it is I am writing down, I feel like this is positive therapy for me.

            Sometimes when I have to write about something I am not interested in I will have a “failing” in my writing. It is as though if I do not enjoy what I am writing about I shut down mentally and creatively. When I write about something I am not interested in, I will usually have someone read over my work before I turn it and a lot of the times the person says it is difficult for them to understand my sentence formation or the point of the overall piece. I believe I have this “failing” because I lose confidence in myself because I do not believe in what I am writing.

            This semester I hope to learn how to be able to write in different forms and on demand. I hope to also build my confidence so that I will improve my abilities to communicate through writing. I am a little worried about my ability to complete a lengthy paper. However, I am looking forward to this course and the semester.