Healthcare writing Essay 3

According to the WTHR Online story in this week’s course materials (Sometimes Your Fitness Tracker Lies – A Lot (Links to an external site.)

, http://www.wthr.com/article/sometimes-your-fitness-tracker-lies-–-a-lot a team of student researchers from Ball State University’s Clinical Exercise Physiology Program conducted a thorough set of tests on six popular activity trackers.

Should we be concerned about the reliability of the data they tested? Why, or why not?

You should write that we should explain that we should be concerned and the reasons

Question 2

Realizing what matters to a patient incorporates the concept of “co-designing.”

Asking patients, “What matters to you?” rather than just “What’s the matter with you?” is, at first glance, a simple word change—but is it? What are the considerations?

According to the WIHI video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hhtPDSCsc resource in this week’s course content, “It’s just as much a symbol as a process.” What does that mean to you?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.