ENGL 101, HIT 130, WRITE 95 Learning Community: Butler, M. & Visel, J. (Fall 2024): Home

This guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for your work in in your Medical Terminology Learning Community. Use the tabs above to navigate the guide.

"A medical dictionary for nurses (1914)" is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

The following is copied and pasted directly from your research description (your librarian has highlighted some sections for emphasis). If you have questions about your assignment, please check with Professor Butler.

Research Project Overview:

Introduction:

One of the main goals of Eng. 101 is to help you advance your literacy skills that will support your academic, personal, and professional journeys. This means knowing how to find good, reliable information and how to synthesize that information with your own experiences and ideas. To do this, you will practice critically thinking about what you read, what you see, and what you think.

One of the main goals of Medical Terminology is to advance your Med Term knowledge! Throughout the rest of the quarter, you will embark on an inquiry exploring a topic related to a body system you have explored in Medical Terminology.

Topic selection:

Choose a topic that relates to one of the four body systems we have studied (skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, or respiratory) and conduct a comprehensive research project that highlights a common injury or disease within that system, a new discovery or treatment related to it, or its importance to overall health.

You may choose to present an injury or condition that you or someone close to you has experienced.

Personal experience: You might choose to present an experience with an orthopedic injury, such as a broken bone or a sports injury, or a condition such as arthritis, scoliosis, or gout. Perhaps you or someone you know has experienced a Myocardial Infarction, asthma, or pneumonia. In this final project, you can tell this story while presenting detailed research information about it.

Research only: You don’t have to get personal here. This is a research project. You can instead select the topic based on your interest, and research requires you dig…so don’t worry about having to share more than presenting the research you find.

Whether you choose a topic based on personal experience or research only, you should conduct thorough research on your chosen injury, condition, or disease, focusing on using correct medical terminology with following aspects:

• Anatomy: Structure and components of the injury, condition or disease. In the case of a personal story, what happened? Research only, how does it occur?
• Physiology: Signs and symptoms of the injury or condition.
• Health and Diseases: Actual or researched treatments and prognosis.
• Impact of Lifestyle: How lifestyle choices affect the health of the system, and interesting facts or examples.

There are three phases to our inquiry process.

Phase 1- Exploration:

What?

We will 1) generate ideas for research topics together and 2) to develop and practice academic writing skills and strategies. We will also consider how class texts can be used as models for our own writing.

Why?

Real research is messy! Developing a thoughtful research question and a topic appropriate for your research paper takes time. The main point of this phase is to use writing as a tool to conduct inquiry by critically reading and evaluating a variety of texts. This will help you build schema, develop a clear research question, and practice essential academic reading, writing, and thinking skills.

Phase 2- Focused Research:

What?

Research Journals- Find 2 sources from the Library Catalog or a database listed in the "Articles" tab of your online library research guide and complete a Research Journal for each of them. [See the "Books" and "Articles" tab of this guide above to begin searching.]

Why?

During this phase, you will zoom-in on your research topic and questions to find 2 credible sources. Your research journals will help you discern the important ideas and evidence from your sources, critically evaluate the credibility of your sources, and prompt you to record your own thinking based on the information you read.

Phase 3- Synthesis, A.K.A Putting it all together:

What?

Find at least 3 more credible sources (you will not create research journals for these)

Write an APA expository (research) essay using the sources you worked with during Phases 1-3 (at least 5 sources total).

Create and present your research with a visual that presents your thesis and 3 key pieces of evidence from your paper in a science-fair style format in class.

Why?

The APA essay and presentation are the final steps of your research project. You will pull information from your sources together with your own ideas to create a claim that you will defend using evidence from at least 5 sources. You will present your research in the form of an essay, and then you will create a visual through which you will share your research with the class. By presenting your research, you will have the opportunity to show what you learned in a way that works best for you. It also allows you to practice public speaking skills and allows our class community the chance to learn from each other.

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