Drafting and Revising a Summary and Response Essay

In this unit, you will draw on the planning you performed in Unit 2 to write and revise a full, 2–3 page summary and response essay based on your understanding of, and responses to, one article from the List of Approved Articles for Writing. In Unit 2, you mapped out your summary and response points to your chosen article. In this unit, you will:

• Draft the full essay.
• Perform revision.
• Submit the final draft and revision statement for your Unit 3 assignment.

Your essay must include the integration of information from your chosen article in the form of quotations and paraphrases, all cited in correct APA style, in the text of your essay and in an end references page.

Be sure to note: every single time you integrate a direct quotation from the text, you must place quotation marks (” “) around it and include an in-text citation directly after the quotation, including author last name, year of publication, and page number. Also, it is absolutely necessary that every time you paraphrase (use information from the article but change it to your own wording) you change the wording significantly to avoid plagiarism. Directly after every paraphrase include an in-text citation, also to avoid plagiarism. In-text citations following paraphrases include just the author’s last name and the year. For instructions and examples related to in-text citation and end referencing of articles from your book, please refer to the Summary and Response Essay Sample, linked in the Resources. Also refer to the APA section of A Writer’s Reference, under Article or Chapter in an Edited Book or an Anthology, and/or to The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, page 453, Work in an Anthology.

Before submitting your Unit 3 Summary and Response Essay, you must receive feedback on your Unit 2 assignment, Plan the Summary and Response Essay.

To complete the assignment:

1. Use your planning materials from Unit 2 and the feedback you received from your instructor to write a full rough draft of your 2–3 page Summary and Response Essay. (Page requirement does not include title page, references, or revision statement.)
2. Include both an objective summary of the article’s key points and sub-points and your fully developed responses. Examine how the article makes you feel, how you connect it to your life and the world around you. Use specific examples.
3. Integrate direct quotations from the article throughout your essay, incorporate source materials smoothly into your own paragraphs and fully cite the article in text, and in an end References page in correct APA style.
4. Use the Drafting and Revising a Summary and Response Essay Scoring Guide to thoroughly assess your essay. Revise as necessary, paying close attention to:
   • Structure, paragraph development, and flow.
   • Mechanics, including grammar, spelling, and source use.
   • Purpose and audience.
5. Format your final draft in full and proper APA style. For instructions and examples related to APA document formatting, please refer to the Summary and Response Essay Sample, as well as to the appropriate sections of your texts, noted above.
6. Compose a 1–2 paragraph statement noting the steps you took during revision and how you feel these actions improved your work from the first draft to the final draft.
7. When you have finished your assignment, carefully and thoroughly read through the Drafting and Revising a Summary and Response Essay Scoring Guide before submitting your work. Read and comprehend all categories in the scoring guide, asking your instructor if you have any questions about any element of these criteria. Do not finalize and submit this assignment until you have taken this step.
8. Submit your assignment to the Turnitin source matching tool, and make any necessary revisions before submitting your final essay for grading.
9. Submit the final draft of your Summary and Response Essay, including your revision statement paragraph after your References page in the same document.

You are also strongly encouraged to make use of Smarthinking, which is a free service provided to you as a Capella learner. Smarthinking allows you to submit any writing assignment for a free review from a qualified tutor. If you would like to use this excellent tool, click the link in the Resources section.

Case discussion

Schoolstuff, Inc. is a manufacturing company located in the South of the USA. Its product lines, which are geared to the school market, include marketboards, chalkboards, tackboards, presentation cabinets, bulletin board cabinets, and display cases. Schoolstuff is recognized for the high quality of its products.

Schoolstuff does not sell directly to schools but through a network of dealers who call on contractors whose part of their business is to build or remodel schools. These contractors compete for projects through a bidding process. In order to prepare their bids, contractors request proposals from all their suppliers including from Schoolstuff and its competitors. Once all the supplier information is compiled, contractors prepare a bid hoping to beat everyone else on price.

Lately, Schoolstuff has been losing business to a Chinese competitor whose price is 30-40% lower. That has been putting a lot of financial pressure on the company to the extent that this year they may just break even. The future does not look better.

Discuss how you would approach the problems being faced by Schoolwork. Ask questions if you think you need further information. This case is based on a real company.

Financing of Health Care

With coinciding concerns about health care costs and the imperative
to improve quality of care, health care providers and others face
difficult decisions in the effort to achieve an appropriate balance.
Such decisions often are addressed in the policy arena. How do
policymakers evaluate which health care services should be financed
through government programs? How do ethics-related questions and other
considerations play into this evaluation process? Is it possible to
contain costs and provide accessible, high-quality care to all, or is
the tension between cost and care inherent in the U.S. health care
delivery system? These questions are central to health care financing
decisions in the United States.

For this Discussion, you will focus on the policy decision-making
process that determines what types of care are covered by public and
private insurers and the ethical aspects of such financial decisions.

To prepare:

• Read the following case study, “Hard Economic and Finance Choices in US Healthcare” (Milstead):
  • Case Study 1: Hard Economic and Finance Choices in US Healthcare
    Applied
    economics is all about managing scarce resources. Economics is an
    amoral field of study: it is neither moral nor immoral. Morality and
    values are determined by individuals at the personal level and by group
    consensus or majority opinion at the national level. State and federal
    governments determine the ‘will of the people’ about how to use scarce
    resources for the good of a nation.

    The U.S. health care
    system is an exemplar of scarcity: primary care physicians, substance
    abuse treatment centers, trauma centers, registered nurses, and the
    money to pay for goods and services. Finance is all about how to pay for
    goods and services. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
    is appointed by the Executive branch of the federal government to make
    decisions about what the Medicare program will and will not pay for. In
    this role, MedPAC makes decisions about medications, procedures and
    treatments. Examples of MedPAC decisions include coverage for left
    ventricular assistive devices as a destination therapy, coverage for
    bariatric surgery, and in 2010, coverage of the drug Provenge™. By law,
    MedPAC is not allowed to use price or cost of any treatment in its
    decision-making processes.

• Review the information in the Washington Post article “Review of
  Prostate Cancer Drugs Provenge Renews Medical Cost-Benefit Debate” in
  the Learning Resources.
• Consider how policy decisions currently are made about what will
  and will not be paid for and what changes, if any, could improve the
  process.
• Reflect on how the Washington Post example illustrates the tension between cost and care. References:
  National Health Expenditures 2010 Highlights, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/highlights.pdf.
  Milstead, J. A. (2013). Health policy and politics: A nurse’s guide (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
  Write your analysis and assessment of the ethical and economic challenges related
  to policy decisions such as those presented in the Washington Post
  article. How does this type of situation contribute to the tension between cost
  and care? Substantiate your response with at least two outside resources. Use the following headings to answer the question:
  Healthcare Financing
  Analysis
  and Assessment of Ethical and Economic Challenges Presented in Washington Post
  How
  This Situations Affects Cost and Care

Alternative and complementary therapies have existed for centuries and in our day are often used in conjunction with medical therapies. Many times an individual has developed a strong affinity for this type of treatment approach and will rely on it more than medical approaches. Nurses need to understand and support the individual in their decision for health promotion.

Tasks:

Discuss any two alternative or complementary therapies. How can they be used in integrative care? How can this integrative care be used in health promotion? Justify your response from the readings or from journal articles from the online library.

In a minimum of 200 words, post your response to the following:

• Discussed two alternative or complementary therapies.
• Discussed how therapies can be used in integrative care.
• Discussed how integrative care can be used in health promotion.
• Response justified with scholarly references.

Consider sharing your own experiences and interpretation of the research. Support your findings with examples and scholarly references. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.