Advance Health Discussion

 

Week 3 Discussion Board Assignment

Last Name A-M- Diagnostic Test: Choose One of the following: PSA, Mammogram, or BMI

Last Name N-Z Health Issues R/T Weight: Choose one of the following:

• Overweight 5-year-old black boy with overweight parents who work full-time and the boy spends his time after school with his grandmother

• 5-year-old Asian girl of normal weight with obese parents who is home schooled

APA Overall, APA is very good. I am still seeing some errors in citing website references. As promised….here is an example.

Center for Disease Control. (2014). National diabetes prevention program. Center for Disease Control. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/prevention/index.htm

If you copy the URL address and place in your browser…..you will go directly to that page. A frequent error that students make is switching the author and the subject. No need to list the “retrieved” date in your citation either. When in doubt….refer to your APA manual, or the Purdue Writing Center https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01…

Scholarly References Many of you are including some very good references in your posts! I know that this is technically not a requirement according to the grading rubric, but I feel that it makes for very good learning. It also helps you utilize the evidence to support your clinical decisions as you move forward into this program. Some of you I have made comments about including more scholarly references in your work. I am not deducting points….just helping you to become better graduate learners!

Shadow Health SH assignments start next week. Be sure you have purchased the product and have successfully accessed the program. This week there are two non graded assignments that you should complete: DCE Orientation and the Conversation Concept lab. Be sure to become familiar with how this product works. In Week 4 you will have your first graded SH assignment. In week 4, please look at the DCE rubric. There are two parts to your grade…..the DCE score (which you can repeat as many times as you need to improve your grade), and the documentation grade. These two items will comprise your grade for the assignment. Please contact SH directly with any technical difficulties.

I am very pleased with the discussion dialogue. Your posts are comprehensive, and informative. Continue to “challenge” your classmates with further dialogue….this makes for a very dynamic learning experience.

Know that all of you are doing a fabulous job!!!

Have a great Week 3!

Dr. O.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source. Advance Health Discussion

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading. Advance Health Discussion

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours. Advance Health Discussion

Advance Health Discussion