WOMEN’S WORK REVISITED (2013) ~ BY: MERLE JACOBS
2) GLOBAL INEQUALITY AND HUMAN NEEDS: HEALTH AND ILLNESS IS AN INCREASINGLY UNEQUAL WORLD (2003) ~ BY: LAURIE WERMUTH
3) SOCIAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: INEQUALITIES RELATING TO HEALTH STATUS (2013) ~ BY: VISANO L.A. AND MELRE JACOBS
Essay Topic: Are health care professionals social capital (pg 19) effected by behaviours? How does this contribute to your wellbeing if ill.
Some areas you should include:
Identify some of the defining characteristics of the nursing/health care profession in Toronto. Discuss the usefulness of the framework (structures, culture, behavior) provided in the book in understanding care-givers interactions with others discussed in the book. If you were a patient would you be able to understand the institution as an outsider and would your culture and race play a part (use only one page to discuss this and you can place this anywhere in the essay).
Use the book Women’s Work by Merle Jacobs to discuss the main points in your essay.
You will involve social science analysis (which is part of the book) when discussing concepts and ideas in your essay. This is a Multicultural and Indigenous essay and it is expected that you use terms related to Social Justice, Multiculturalism, Anti-Racism and Culture.
Your paper will:
Aptly capture in words the selected points Situate the argument within the relevant literature from the book with supporting arguments from the other 2 books. Clearly state and sustain an argument. Provide good evidence for the case you are making. Analysis involves going beyond what the author says. It means looking at relationships between evidence and conclusions, between concepts in the text and the work in other texts.
Papers are assessed for their logic, cogency, and appropriate use of social science concepts in discussing your topic. You will also involve analysis when discussing concepts and ideas The essay is not a simple summary and description. Rather than telling the reader the facts of what you have read, the essay stresses that you examine information and evaluate it. Critical analysis does not simply ask what, where and when; it asks why and how.
Remember that your opinion alone is not sufficient support for a social science argument. Even if you are making a theoretical argument, you must be able to point to documented instances of social phenomena that fit your argument. Logic is necessary for making the argument, but is not sufficient support by itself.
A thesis statement tells a reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion. Such a statement is also called an “argument,” a “main idea,” or a “controlling idea.” Note that a thesis is an interpretation of a subject, not the subject itself. The subject, or topic, of an essay might be World War II or Moby Dick; a thesis must then offer a way to understand the war or the novel that others might dispute. A single sentence somewhere in your first paragraph should present your thesis to the reader. The body of the essay gathers and organizes evidence that will persuade the reader of the logic of your interpretation. Your thesis statement gives the reader a preview of the essay’s purpose and goal.
Finally remember…. When you write you show that