As a part of this paper I had to interview two nurses about how writing is used in their job.
Having to do so helped me gain information that a book or article could not have given me, and helped me touch up on my interviewing process. Writing this paper not only required me to interview two people in my future profession but also required that I had at least for sources. Having so made me quote a lot and assisted my writing in giving it more credibility and simply giving me the practice of quoting agin.
When this paper was first assigned I assumed that English did not play a big role, or any at all, in nursing since it is such heavily science based major. I realized once I stared reading scholarly articles and interviewing experts that I could not have been more wrong. English plays a major role in nursing and if a nurse does not make bench mark on how much english is needed to become a nurse they will fail at there job. Being a nurse of any field requires you to write reports on patients, and a heavy amount of continuous research through out a nurses a career. Both of these are critical to the job of a nurse and if done wrong could not only could hinder you from doing your job well, but if a report is written wrong it could cost a life.
Assignment one was overall a success in teaching me several things about my writing skills. I learned that I am not as good of a writer as I believed I was. I need to be able to quote better and not write with my opinion but more objective and giving my opinion in my paper as little as possible.
In order for me to be ready for my next major assignment i need to be able to do both of these things better in order to write at the skill level I would like.
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