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Jake Van Pelt

7/18/16

1. Sharma, Suhasini. How to Become a Competent Medical


Writer? Perspectives in Clinical Research1.1 (2010): 3337. Print. This source
is a short except explaining the proper protocols to write a professional
medical documents relating to reports, research, and general information for
the public. The source relates to my topic of research because it is explaining
as to how medical documents are to be written depending upon the context
of them and who the audience is for the respective documents. The
document elaborates upon documents composed and sent between medical
professional, reports of patients, and documentation to be released to the
media and other forms of the press. This source is unrelated to the two other
sources in that it does not explain in substantial detail about the way a
document is structured, but rather the workings of the composure of the
document. Hence, this source guides the individual seeking to understand
how to begin to write medical type of documents. This source is related to the
other two sources in that its focus is on medical documents and like the
others, offers insight into the genre conventions of what make medical
documents. From this source, I am going to take away the practices and
techniques to write in the proper genre for the specific type of medical
document. The fact that it elaborates upon informal, formal, and presentation
types of documents means that for the most part my bases are covered with
regards to understanding how to write in the primary three genres within the
medical field. This will later help me down the road as I am an aspiring
medical student seeking to become an open heart surgeon.
Despite all the information provided within the text, it still is a b it lacking
with regards to all the details about the genre conventions of each genre
within medical field and as to what makes each genre unique and identifiable.
Additionally, explanation about how to write a medical document is not the
same as seeing one, taking time to look at what it is saying, and then
formulate an understanding about how that genre of document is unique and
Identifiable. The task of the defining the genres within the medical field is still
at hand even with assistance from this source. From here I shall seek to look
up further information regarding medical documentation of varying genres
and hope that I can find some more information pertaining to other genres
not mentioned within the source, adding those to the paper to give a broader
spectrum of the types of genres used within the medical field here at Florida
State University as well as the medical field as a whole.
2. Hogben, Lancelot. "Design of Medical Documents." The Incorporated
Statistician 2.2 (1951): 2-14. Web. Within this document, are the descriptions
of the genre conventions that make each genre within the medical field
unique as well as establish their purpose and times which are appropriate for
each. This source also brings up the interesting idea/argument within the

medical field regarding the importance of machinery. This in itself is a new


genre as it is addressing and partaking in arguing a point, a genre that shall
certainly be prevalent throughout medical document history. In addition to
bringing up the genre of argumentation, the article also brings up the topic of
coding within the medical field. While I do not plan to go to in depth with my
discussion of coding, because I myself am quite lacking in knowledge on the
subject, I shall still likely end up mentioning it as it itself is yet another type of
genre. This is a truth because coding is typed to explain to the computer how
something works, what it does, how it affects other processes and objects,
and how all these factors culminate to create the proper functioning
machines that people so heavily rely upon today. This document mentions
topics that are quite relevant to the genres of the medical field in the present
day being the coding of complex machinery that modern medical science so
heavily relies on. This source is unrelated to the other sources in that it
covers the topic of coding with computers, being quite the genre that is quite
unlike the others. Still, it does cover some of the more basic genres within the
medical field of which I shall read further into as to gain the best and most
well rounded understanding of each genre.
I still need more information about how the unique genres within the medical
field are interconnected and related. This is a significant piece of data that I
so dearly need as it is necessary for my paper to be able to make sense as a
bunch of random genres with no relation gives the idea of sheer chaos and
disorder, which is a completely incorrect representation f the medical field.
The source also fails to go into too much detail about how one should try to
write in each genre exactly, which is a skill that I will need to pick up if this
research paper is to have given me any benefit. Overall, this source will be
the most well rounded of the first three as it is what touches on some of the
most identifying features of each genre. Hence, I shall need to find other
sources that will further elaborate upon some of the genres to make up for
the vagueness of this article.

3. MacLean, Catherine H., Louie Rachel, Shekelle Paul G., Roth Carol P., Saliba
Debra, Higashi Takahiro, Adams John, Chang John T., Kamberg Caren J.,
Solomon David H., Young Roy T., and Wenger Neil S. "Comparison of
Administrative Data and Medical Records to Measure the Quality of Medical
Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients." Medical Care 44.2 (2006): 14148. Web. This source evaluates how the quality of medical records differs
from the standard when compared to records of more elderly patients. This
will help to show the genre conventions of the medical record genre of writing
in the medical field as the article will critique what certain records were
missing. This would imply that what is not present must be an important part
of the genre as the whole argument of the source is that older patients are
not being given equal treatment with regards to the level of expertise used to
document their health records. This source is similar to the other sources in
that it is evaluating documents within the medical field and is revealing the

genre convention associated with such documents. This source does differ
quite a bit from the other two sources though as it takes a more investigative
genre compared to the other two, being the research of the quality of medical
records based upon the age of the patient. Additionally, the article is much
more comparative in its presentation of facts compared to the two other
sources reflecting its more discerning genre and respective genre
conventions. From the source, I intend to gain information pertaining to the
genre conventions primarily relating to medical records of patients
concerning how the main idea of the entire source is to determine whether
the quality of the medical report is determinant upon the age of the person
being evaluated with a negative correlation with age and quality of the
report.
This article is unfortunately the least expansive with regards to what it
discusses in terms of genre as it focuses on the genre conventions of medical
records where else the other sources covered far more than just one genre. I
will say though that its extensive detail makes the source quite valuable as It
will give me more information pertaining to genre conventions and as such, I
feel as though the genre conventions of medical records will be the best
explained and most elaborated upon in my paper. My research still has a few
holes in the data that need to be covered for the research to feel proper and
sufficient for the paper to correctly convey the different genres of the medical
field though. As such I shall seek out other document written in a genre
similar to this one, but, that concern the other genre conventions of the
medical field like emails and science journal type articles.

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