NSE 101 Week 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Descriptive writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Write a summary about a text you read or describe.
Includes a description of the main points and usually does not include your personal opinion or critique
How to do descriptive writing - CORRECT ANSWER - - Consider the reason you why are writing
- Pre-reading
- Point form main points
- Provide general overview
- Exclude minor details
- Consider your audience
- Begin text identifying text source
- Use complete sources
- Use neutral voice, avoid incorporating your opinion or critique of text
- Paraphrase the text in its own words and avoid use of direct quote
Descriptive Writing Example - CORRECT ANSWER - - Megani and her research team claim that
students learn to write by reading and practicing writing
- The authors explain that clients should sit on a chair quietly for five minutes before having their blood
pressure taken
Reflective Writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Reflective Writing: Think deeply and critically write
about an experience or an event or something you have read. You are expected to engage in reflective
writing related to your clinical practice
How to do reflective writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Look back - Recall a situation that was
meaningful to you in your practice.
Elaborate - Describe the situation from an objective and subjective perspective
, Analyze - Examine how and why the situation happened the way it did. Think about it in the context of
nursing courses and literature
Revise - Consider how and why your practice should remain the same and how it should be changed
New trial/perspective-Think and move forward. What will you do differently when a similar situation
occurs
Reflective writing example - CORRECT ANSWER - According to Bramley and Matiti (2014),
patients want nurses to understand how to be treated with compassionate care and gain an understanding
of the importance of demonstrating compassion. Based on my personal understanding of how painful
needles are, I demonstrated compassion by putting myself in my patient's shoes. Compassion was
demonstrated by recognizing my patient's emotions and working collaboratively with my patient to limit
the pain.
Analytical writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Involves examining the issue or text closely and
looking at its parts to understand the whole
How to do Analytical Writing - CORRECT ANSWER - - Start with a question or debate.
-Review the literature to gain a preliminary understanding of what is known about your topic.
- Once you have decided what literature to include, begin your analysis.
- Your analysis should present what is known about the topic in a concise and informative manner.
- In your analysis, articulate your process of inquiry and examine the concept or issue closely.
- The discussion section of your paper provides room for analytical commentary
Persuasive Writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Is to persuade, influence, convince and inspire your
audience to believe in your point of view on a topic that involves multiple viewpoints and opinions
Persuasive Writing example - CORRECT ANSWER - - The aim of this paper is to argue why
community violence in urban secondary schools is best addressed with the implementation of trauma-
informed programs
- Most importantly, it has been noted in the research that harm reduction clinics reduce disease incidence
and mortality rates
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Descriptive writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Write a summary about a text you read or describe.
Includes a description of the main points and usually does not include your personal opinion or critique
How to do descriptive writing - CORRECT ANSWER - - Consider the reason you why are writing
- Pre-reading
- Point form main points
- Provide general overview
- Exclude minor details
- Consider your audience
- Begin text identifying text source
- Use complete sources
- Use neutral voice, avoid incorporating your opinion or critique of text
- Paraphrase the text in its own words and avoid use of direct quote
Descriptive Writing Example - CORRECT ANSWER - - Megani and her research team claim that
students learn to write by reading and practicing writing
- The authors explain that clients should sit on a chair quietly for five minutes before having their blood
pressure taken
Reflective Writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Reflective Writing: Think deeply and critically write
about an experience or an event or something you have read. You are expected to engage in reflective
writing related to your clinical practice
How to do reflective writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Look back - Recall a situation that was
meaningful to you in your practice.
Elaborate - Describe the situation from an objective and subjective perspective
, Analyze - Examine how and why the situation happened the way it did. Think about it in the context of
nursing courses and literature
Revise - Consider how and why your practice should remain the same and how it should be changed
New trial/perspective-Think and move forward. What will you do differently when a similar situation
occurs
Reflective writing example - CORRECT ANSWER - According to Bramley and Matiti (2014),
patients want nurses to understand how to be treated with compassionate care and gain an understanding
of the importance of demonstrating compassion. Based on my personal understanding of how painful
needles are, I demonstrated compassion by putting myself in my patient's shoes. Compassion was
demonstrated by recognizing my patient's emotions and working collaboratively with my patient to limit
the pain.
Analytical writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Involves examining the issue or text closely and
looking at its parts to understand the whole
How to do Analytical Writing - CORRECT ANSWER - - Start with a question or debate.
-Review the literature to gain a preliminary understanding of what is known about your topic.
- Once you have decided what literature to include, begin your analysis.
- Your analysis should present what is known about the topic in a concise and informative manner.
- In your analysis, articulate your process of inquiry and examine the concept or issue closely.
- The discussion section of your paper provides room for analytical commentary
Persuasive Writing - CORRECT ANSWER - Is to persuade, influence, convince and inspire your
audience to believe in your point of view on a topic that involves multiple viewpoints and opinions
Persuasive Writing example - CORRECT ANSWER - - The aim of this paper is to argue why
community violence in urban secondary schools is best addressed with the implementation of trauma-
informed programs
- Most importantly, it has been noted in the research that harm reduction clinics reduce disease incidence
and mortality rates
