Recently I have been doing service work for St. Lukes Medical Clinic. They are a clinic that gives free medical service to people who have insurance but can not afford to pay for medical service. Even though It provides a great service there still are problems that they run into. One problem that I noticed was that they do not provide medical care to uninsured people and they do not provide any kind of dental care what so ever. This does not affect me personally but it does effect the community of Spartanburg. The first thing that they told us when I started my service work was that they do not provide dental work. Dental work is really expensive compared to getting treated for sickness. I mean just to get braces is a few thousand dollars. Having bad teeth can lead to disease as well. Some people can not even afford medical insurance, where those people go to get treated? That is why I think this is a huge problem because if St. Lukes is willing to help people get treated for free with medical insurance then why not people with out it. The steakholders of the problem would be the patients, volunteering doctors, staff of St. Lukes, and nurses. For this problem I will be doing research using academic search complete on the USC Upstate library online resources as well as books and other scholarly websites.
Questions I have for the topic/steakholders
1. How can we raise money to help uninsured people
2. How can we raise money to help get dentist materials
3. Where can we get donations for equipment
4. Can we provide insurance for the uninsured
5. How can we get dentists to come in and volunteer
6. is it possible to help those who are uninsured
7. How can we get doctors to come in and volunteer more often
8. Can we set up a work schedule for volunteers instead of just letting them come in when they feel like it.
9. Do people with insurance still have to pay out of their own pocked
10. How can donations help with the problem
I have found a few resources as E-books and in academic search complete. I always seem to run into problems when typing papers and so far I have trouble with knowing what to research. For example finding the right key words to use in my research.
Monday, March 21, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
self assessment-Essay 2
Our second paper for English 102 was an argument analysis paper. We had to look up sources about an issue that was related to our service learning work. Since I work at a medical clinic I decided to do something on the privacy of medical records.
I think that I did really well on summarizing and analyzing each of my sources. Some people tend to summarize when they are trying to analyze but I feel like my paper does a good job of separating the two. First I summarized the source then after that wrote my interpretation of the source. When I analyze papers I think to myself "what do I make of it?" It helps keep me in check.
I think the best part of my argument analysis essay is the first source that I cover. I think it is the best part because I had a lot to go from because of the source. The author of the article gave valid reasoning and evidence. He even had very good credibility compared to my second source which made analyzing it a lot easier as well as picking a side to agree with.
To make my paper better I would probably summarize a bit more for each source. At times I felt that the summaries might have not had enough detail but then again it is a summary after all. I always seem to have the problem of knowing whether or not my summary is well typed up.
I learn a lot from the papers we write in all honesty. I think the thing I learned the most, however, from writing my argument analysis paper is how to find fallacies in articles and other things. The biggest thing we went over in class was the fallacies. If I were to go back one year and read an article, I would not even notice or think about any fallacies but now when I read I tend to look for them or just notice them.
I think that I did really well on summarizing and analyzing each of my sources. Some people tend to summarize when they are trying to analyze but I feel like my paper does a good job of separating the two. First I summarized the source then after that wrote my interpretation of the source. When I analyze papers I think to myself "what do I make of it?" It helps keep me in check.
I think the best part of my argument analysis essay is the first source that I cover. I think it is the best part because I had a lot to go from because of the source. The author of the article gave valid reasoning and evidence. He even had very good credibility compared to my second source which made analyzing it a lot easier as well as picking a side to agree with.
To make my paper better I would probably summarize a bit more for each source. At times I felt that the summaries might have not had enough detail but then again it is a summary after all. I always seem to have the problem of knowing whether or not my summary is well typed up.
I learn a lot from the papers we write in all honesty. I think the thing I learned the most, however, from writing my argument analysis paper is how to find fallacies in articles and other things. The biggest thing we went over in class was the fallacies. If I were to go back one year and read an article, I would not even notice or think about any fallacies but now when I read I tend to look for them or just notice them.
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