Essay #1~ Express and Reflect: A Health Experience
Background: We have been discussing health and communities, specifically health as a “dynamic state or condition of human organism that is multi-dimensional in nature.” A person’s health is dynamic in part because of the many different factors that determine one’s health: physical, emotional, social, behavioral, intellectual, spiritual, and occupational and results from a person’s interactions with and adaptations to his or her environment.
Health exists in varying degrees and is specific to each individual. Look around you, sometime in your life you have experienced a health issue or someone in your community has experienced a health issue that is dynamic in nature, and that experience has impacted you in some way (i.e., you remember the situation, so there has to be some impact there).
Writing Task: Write a 3-5 page essay about this moment of time in which you look back, reconsider, question, and interpret a health experience from your present perspective. It will be important to describe this health experience with enough detail so that the reader can understand the experience’s significance to you. How has this health experience changed over time? How has this health experience affected your beliefs, attitude or values? What new perspective do you want your readers to come away with after reading your essay? (Use one of the last questions to frame your thesis).
Rhetorical Situation: You are trying to convince students, like yourself, that this health experience has a valid place in the overall discussion of health. Keep in mind that you are writing for a public audience.
Readings to Consider
“Consider the Lobster”
“A Culture of Poverty”
Express and Reflect handout.
Helpful Hints to be Successful in this Essay
Use prompts and ideas from class free writes and discussions to help you get started.
Connect your experience with the factor(s) that determine one’s health.
Meet with an ASAP writing assistant to help generate and/or organize ideas.
Use the Shared Criteria and course outcomes (see below) as a gauge to write this assignment.
Review readings (see above in reading section).
Review class notes on health and community.
Review noun-phrase apposition
Consider your peers’ comments and feedback received in peer review.
Upcoming Deadlines for Essay #1
Peer Review (3) copies Due: See course schedule.
Draft Due: See course schedule.
Final Essay Due: See course schedule.
CHHS 111~ Introduction to Health and Human Services ~ EngCom A
Essay #1~ Express and Reflect: A Health Experience
Assessment Criteria for this Essay ~ A Checklist
ENGCOM A Learning Outcomes for this assignment
Technical Competency, Mechanics, and Related Presentational Skills:
O Ability to fulfill assignments, with responsiveness to occasion, audience, and purpose;
O Ability to develop and consistently apply a recognizable organizational scheme;
O Ability to engage and retain the audience’s attention;
O Ability to convey central idea(s), information, and message(s) clearly;
O Ability to engage and retain the audience’s attention;
O Ability to develop and support major ideas;
O Ability to make effective use of appropriate written conventions, in genre selection,
grammar, punctuation, mechanics, tone, and syntax;
O Ability to use rhetorical tools, like noun-phrase appositives, effectively.
Additional Criteria for Success (from the “Shared Criteria For Assessing Formal Writing)
Make sure you have a focused idea that meets the terms of the assignment.
Develop and support your ideas to help reader understand your main points.
Organization and presentation is clear and logical.
Sentence structure is accurate.
Utilize noun-phrase appositives (minimum of two, underlined in the text)
Use standard paper formatting as discussed in class (12pt font, double spaced, 1 inch
margins).
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