Assignment Part 1:
What is an annotation? It's a note of explanation or comment added to a text. Your instructors annotate your assignments in Canvas most weeks when they type the comments and feedback that appear on the side of your documents and papers.
Using Microsoft Word's Comment Feature, you'll add annotations to a scholarly text. You can also use Google Doc's Commenting Tools, or Apple's Pages commenting tool (All Pages documents should be saved as pdfs or docx files before submitting to Canvas!) If you've never used one of these tools, take some time to read through the relevant tutorial link above.
Select one of the scholarly articles below. Using comments, highlight and comment on the features of academic writing that you notice in the article. Depending on your comment, you may highlight a single word, a sentence, or a whole paragraph.
As a reminder, here are the features of academic writing that we read about this week:
- Complexity
- Formality
- Precision
- Objectivity
- Explicitness
- Accuracy
- Hedging
- Responsibility
- Organization
- Planning
Leave a minimum of 10 comments on the document. Don't just identify a feature of academic writing. Explain how it is used and analyze its effect.
Your annotations should identify at least 5 of the features of academic writing listed above. You may also comment on other features of academic writing that came up in this week's discussion.
Finally, leave one last annotation on your article that answers the following questions in no less than 100 words:
Which feature of academic writing that you identified above would you most like to work on developing in your own writing?
What benefit to you as a writer will working on this feature provide? Need Assignment Help?
Article Choices:
Coping with job stress for hospital nurses during the COVID19 crisis: The joint roles of micro-breaks and psychological detachment
Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Resilience in Haitian Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
Gender Disparities in End of Life Care: A Scoping Review
Beliefs, knowledge, actions of nursing techniques in breastfeeding in pain management in immunization
The work-related stress experienced by registered nurses at municipal aged care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Assignment Part 2:
On a different document
Academic Writing vs. Technical Writing - Discussion
As college learners, all of you have already had some experience with academic writing-both reading it and writing it. For the last 8 weeks we've explored technical and professional writing, which shares many characteristics with academic writing, but also has some key differences.
For this discussion, let's explore the major differences between academic writing and professional/technical writing. Using what you've learned over the last 8 weeks, plus what you've learned about academic writing and APA style in this week's readings, discuss the following:
What do you think are the most important differences between academic writing and technical/professional writing?
Why do you think nursing learners study and practice academic writing?
What parts of academic writing do you like or enjoy? What parts do you dislike or fear? Why?