Throughout this course, I learned how to work with multiple different sample writings in something other than a research paper. These projects have been argumentative widely structured with pretty vague prompts at times which is something I’m not used to and had to adjust. The articles in Project 3 were pretty easy for me to connect and relate to compared to others. I also think this paper was a good one to integrate my opinion into as I am interested in applying to nursing in the spring and I’m seriously considering it so it was a lot easier for me to make a connection to.

Below I have included a snippet of my paper. I feel as if it is a good example of connecting two of the readings used to write in this project. It connects Michael Carter’s ideas to the UNE curriculum outline for nursing. It also shows my ability to embed quotes as well as explain the ideas being talked about.

In Michael Carter’s, “Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines.” he talks about the four metagenres: problem solving, empirical inquiry, research from resources, and call for performance. The nursing major at UNE can relate to each of these metagenres. The empirical inquiry metagenre answers “questions by drawing conclusions from systematic investigation based on empirical data” (Carter, 396). Nursing majors are taught about different types of patients and how they react to different types of care based on the different environments they’re placed in. Through doing this, the nursing majors will be using previous data about the different types of care and the reaction of patients to help in their future job and within their clinical work. The major can also fit into the call for performance metagenre. This metagenre “denote[s] both the act and the resulting object of a performance, but particularly the primacy of an object as evidence of success in learning to perform the act, the doing of the performance” (Carter, 400). The call for performance is used inside and outside of the classroom. As a student learning, one needs to apply their knowledge inside of the classroom, but also outside in their clinical work. Through the nursing major, students are taught to apply their knowledge by completing clinical hours and shadowing real nurses and their shifts in hospitals. Problem solving is the one of the most apparent metagenres used by nursing majors. Whether it’s in the classroom or out in their fieldwork, nursing students are given problems every day that they are required to come up with a solution for.