Essay writing is a necessary skill.Like your correspondent Julie Archer in the October issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. (p3), I too read Chris Cottingham's article "Essay wha?" published in September (p25) and tend to agree with what he said, both for and against essay writing. As someone currently travelling the sometimes bumpy road of the bachelor of nursing (BN) programme, I don't always enjoy essay writing. However, I do see the need. Quite a few nurses may aspire toward completing a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. or even a PhD at some point in their careers. The writing involved at that level makes the BN 2000-word essay pale into insignificance in·sig·nif·i·cance n. The quality or state of being insignificant. Noun 1. insignificance - the quality of having little or no significance unimportance - the quality of not being important or worthy of note . Yet the BN essay is the foundation upon which those mighty tomes are built. I personally feel many people's essay writing ability may not be up to the task. In today's pre-packaged, freeze-dried, throw-away society The throw-away society is a human society strongly influenced by consumerism. The term describes a critical view of over-consumption and excessive production of short-lived or disposable items. , if it's not on the computer, it doesn't exist. [ come from the era in which a "spellcheck" was called a dictionary. If you weren't sure how to spell a word, you wrote down all possible spelling options and chose the one that Looked correct. In fact, on my computer, "Yours faithfully"--the correct way to end a formal letter--is not even a pre-programmed option. And the spellcheck usually defaults to American spelling, just like the signage in the new Christchurch Women's Hospital Women's Hospital of Greensboro (part of Moses Cone Health System) As the state's first free-standing hospital dedicated to women, the Women's Hospital of Greensboro is a 134-bed hospital is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art, compassionate and personalized care to women (eg fetal instead of foetal foe·tal adj. Chiefly British Variant of fetal. Adj. 1. foetal - of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" fetal ). I myself have not met any of Chris's "ethically timid or intellectually under-performing" nurses or other tutors at my nursing school, indeed, I believe the staff here do extremely well, occasionally under trying conditions, to deliver the best possible nursing training they can. I feel this is reflected in the calibre of such students as the current National Student Unit chair Jennifer Reid who is definitely not ethically timid or under-performing. While I appreciate Chris is entitled to his opinions, one thing students are taught is never to make generalisations or assumptions about others, be they patients/clients/consumers or colleagues. Steve McBrearty, student, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology The Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) is an institute of technology in Christchurch, New Zealand. It provides full- and part-time education leading to certificates, diplomas, applied bachelor's degrees and applied master's degrees in technologies and trades. |
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