Writing To Inform: A Profile Of A Place Instruction
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Writing to Inform Blog: Writing a Profile of a Place INSTRUCTIONS: The primary purpose of a profile is to inform readers about a living person, a place visited, or an event attended. For this assignment, choose a place that you have visited. For example, your profile might describe a local business, restaurant, or landmark; your backyard garden; a foreign country; a recent duty station; a specific airport, train, or bus terminal, your child's classroom, a museum, a sports arena, or field, etc. To potentially receive full credit, you should: 1. Write a profile essay of words in which you describe your selected place. Reminder: an essay should contain an introduction, body, and conclusion. 2. Include a thesis statement at the end of the introduction that focuses on some aspect of the place that the reader will find intriguing or unusual. 3. Rely on showing via sensory impressions (sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile sensations) rather than telling. Hint: use action verbs (i.e., explode, roared, bloomed, ran, etc.) rather than passive verbs of being (i.e., is, was, were, are, etc.) 4. Bring attention to the uniqueness of the place, showing what is remarkable about it. 5. Present a portrait of the place through a specific angle of vision. That is, convey a dominant attitude toward the subject, an attitude (i.e., fascination, disgust, amusement, detachment, joy, etc.) that can be implied through details or stated explicitly. Although it is not required, you may need to conduct library research to gather additional information about the place. If you use outside sources, you must give credit to your sources. However, since we have not yet covered APA-style documentation in class, no deductions will be made for violations of format. You must, however, name the source of your information in your paper and list the source at the end of your paper. Deductions will be made if no attempt is made to cite the source. You must also double-space your assignment. If you use your own experiences as support for your thesis, this is fine—and you may use first-person words (I, me, my, mine). This tone is appropriate since you do not want to refer to yourself in the third person. You are to write an "essay on the impact and potential of advances in artificial intelligence and technology on the delivery of health care in the U.S.," which is intentionally vague. Though vague, I want you to find or develop an angle or a focus that you can unwrap...do a deep dive...do justice to...within the length requirements specified. Do not do a survey of trends or try to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic. State your focus at the beginning. Write a 5-7-page, double-line spaced essay on the impact and potential of advances in artificial intelligence and technology on the delivery of health care in the U.S. Go beyond what’s in the video for your essay, and provide a specific focus on hospitals. Do not include any tables, charts, or graphics of any type. A minimum of five external sources (not counting your textbook and the film) must be used. Your title/cover and reference pages do not count toward the page length requirement. The rubric for this assignment is in Appendix A of our syllabus. Your essay must be submitted in MSWord file format only. Upload your paper to the assignment dropbox on our course website by March 7.