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Our paper 3 work is divided this week into two related assignments.  Bear with me as this is a new option in Eli Review for me, too.  Here is the link, due this evening. Is a REVISION plan you write to plan your next draft.

Bonus knowledge.  Many of you plan a health care career.  You may appreciate these readings from my medical humanities class. We will talk briefly about some of them today.

Ethics and cultural competence (Links to an external site.)

Manga and discourse analysis (Links to an external site.)

Japanese physician patient/communication styles (Links to an external site.)

Hearing voices (religious spiritual article) (Links to an external site.)

Ft. Peck Indian Reservation Montana (Links to an external site.)

Alaska natives, cultural competence (Links to an external site.)

Healing in the Sami North (Links to an external site.)

1991 First Gen Korean family (patient care) (Links to an external site.)

For you, as we all approach the holidays.

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Here is a google doc with the seven ways to end (taken from squarespace) but by request.

Other helpful reminder docs:

• Five page google doc guidance/checklist
• Flow chart image
• Your Eli Review task.  PLEASE COMPLETE BEFORE YOU LEAVE FOR THE HOLIDAY.  

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Are you using Portfolium yet?  Please place your two writing projects in this space, with some curation.  Do you have group projects that you can make work for you?  Place them there, too. 

I want to talk about some modifications to the structure that are possible.  The first one concerns definition, especially short definitions within bunny paws.

The second one concerns analysis moves, in paragraphs.  Are you stumped on analysis?  We will talk briefly about to draft upon the analysis of your authors.

WEDNESDAY UPDATE (no voice and still really slammed by whatever I got).

Keep reading and writing.  Manage your other work. Read and reread these links.  I am hoping for FRIDAY back to normal.  

You can work on the peer collaboration assignment in Eli Review.  I will post some information later today or on Tuesday. Concerns transitions and the complex paragraphing in your center portion of the review.

Paging the Plague Doc

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I am not feeling well; scheduling a rapid test today or Tuesday.  Would be breakthrough or something else.

You could read these short pieces on thinking about statistical tests and writing about them. Remember that I ask you to do this but I am not evaluating you on this.  Is a huge professional skill that you are just beginning to develop: 

• Open access NIH/NCBI 2017 overview.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as background. 
• Skim this 2020 open access pedagogy article; then focus at section 4.1 where the stats examples begin.
• Are you nervous about statistics?  Many are.  Read this psychology-focused pedagogy guide.
• Finally, look at this 8-page PDF that focuses on public ability to think critcally about statistics.  You will learn about
  • study design
  • spurious associations (more on data fallacies here)
  • problems in measurement
  • alternative explainations

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Selected craft lessons about your reading/writing for the one-article review assignment.

Mining the abstract in this short html presentation from CAIN.

Understanding that technical style  (CAIN, again) is different from literary style, news/journalism style, and even humanities style.  Common errors in technical and scientific writing:  see this helpful table, from CAIN.

As you read, note the treatment of numbers in your article.  Here is an html short presentation from CAIN about conventions on writing about numerical information.

From last week, reposted here: 

Spitballing on the CAIN seven openings:

1. Tell a short story/be visual and clear about characters and actions.
   1. Case that is real (patient)
   2. Composite case that you reveal as not real but highly plausible
   3. Use a widely know lit/media event
2. Use a current event.
   1. Professional meeting
   2. Political event
   3. Cultural event/phenom
3. Capture the size of the problem (very large but sometimes very small works too).
   1. Rate of illness in a population (like diabetes or COVID infection numbers)
   2. Number of Goldilocks planets
   3. Depth of sea flow and number of heat vents
   4. Estimates of insects globally
   5. Financial cost of cod fishery collapse.
4. Open with huge social problem, perhaps a wicked problem.
   1. Can geo-engineering address carbon capture in practical, short-term ways?
   2. Drones may play a role in distributing vaccines in remote areas.
5. Use a smaller question to open a document.
   1. Does ultra high resolution mammography improve the problem of false positives in breast cancer diagnosis?
   2. Can Josh Silver's 2009 TED talk on spectacles be scaled in Amazonia?
6. Quote a respected thinking, related to your problem/research question.
   1. Pick someone you admire.  I suggest looking at Nobel Prize speeches but also the annual cohorts of MacArthur genius winners.
      1. “The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.”
         ― Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action.
      2. ‘As birds form flocks and ants carry food to nests using bottom-up principles of communication and collective action, people can solve their own problems.’
      – Ruth DeFries, 2020. What Would Nature Do?
7. Use statistics (related to number 3).
   1. Protein folding operations are very small and very fast. For example,  very small single-domain proteins ( up to a hundred amino acids) typically fold in one  step. 
   2. Time scales for protein folding are typically at the millisecond level. Indeed, the very fastest known protein folding reactions conclude with one to five microseconds.

Here is the Manchester University Academic Phrase bank on getting started in your documents. This resource is HUGE.  I recommend reading the seven strategies above as a way to think BEFORE you dive in the ManU resource.  And, within those seven strategies?  You can think about writing a personal statement.  That should make you interested in these seven says INTO a document.  You need to capture the reader's attention.

General craft lessons on writing we will work through this week:

Handful of language conventions:

1) That-which: which takes a comma; that does not! See this  handout on choosing which and that.

2) What is an appositive?

What is an appositive? A bit of information you insert in between the subject and the verb.  You need commas or other sorts of punctuation to set this off.  This image of bunny paws can help you remember to do this:

3) Alot v. A lot: Grammar moment: the abomination of alot. alot is not a word.  Let's see what this blogger says about remembering to use a lot and not alot(click into image to access her website).

Now, to this bit of charm from N.N. Ta DAH!

4) punctuation with quote marks (nice summary  here at Grammar Monster)
5) colon and semi colon use (start here with The Oatmeal's take)