Allied Health Career Writing Assignment.

See the syllabus for the due date.

The student will choose and research a health care related career and write a 3 – 5-page paper answering the following questions. (MIN 3 FULL
Pages)
1. What sparked your interest in this career?
2. If you have not already done so, research the profession. Given the research what are some positive and negative aspects of the
profession?
3. What is the scope of practice or a job description for someone working in the field? (if you need help finding this let me know)
4. Explain the educational requirements for the profession? What future option does this career potentially open? (i.e. career ladder)
5. What type of person is ideal for this career? What attributes/talents/skills should they possess?
6. During your research where there any areas that surprised or caused a challenge for you?
7. Since the start of this class are you as interested, more interested or less interested in this career? Why?

NOTE: I will not be adhering to any APA or MLA standards for this assignment. This paper should be double-spaced and organized. Cutting and
pasting any work that is not your own is plagiarism.

Grading Rubric:

Name: ___________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________

Exemplary Accomplished Developing Beginning

4 3 2 1 Score
Audience cannot
Student presents
Audience has understand
information in logical, Student presents
difficulty following presentation
Information interesting sequence information in logical
paper as a result of because there is no
which audience can easily sequence.
sequence issues sequence of
follow
information
Subject knowledge is Subject knowledge is Some subject Subject knowledge
evident throughout. (more evident in much of knowledge is evident. is not evident.
Subject Knowledge than required) All the paper. Some information is Information is
Of Health Career information is clear, Information is clear, confusing, incorrect confusing,
appropriate, and correct appropriate, and or flawed. incorrect or flawed
correct

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Allied Health Career Writing Assignment.
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Objectives Clearly Stated/Suggested
Format Followed
Organization
Paragraph Construction
Resources (3-5 creditable sources)
Quality of Information
Content
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Student covers all
suggested objectives
including scope of
practice and code of
ethics for health career
chosen
Paper is neatly presented
and formatted.
All paragraphs include
introductory sentence,
explanations or details,
and concluding sentence
The student selects an
assortment of supporting
resources to compliments
learning and fulfills the
assignments expectations
Information clearly relates
to the main topic. It
includes several (3+)
supporting details and/or
examples
Material extensively
covers required content,
focusing on career and
demonstrating student
understanding
Student covers the Student covers Student does not
objectives suggested majority of the cover the
for paper but does not suggested objectives objectives given
fully elaborate but does not elaborate for the assignment
sufficiently
Information is Information is The information
organized with well- organized missing appears to be
constructed more than 3 minor disorganized and
paragraphs but formatting elements not formatted
missing minor format
elements
Most paragraphs Paragraphs included Paragraphing
include introductory related information structure is not
sentence, but were typically not clear and sentences
explanations or constructed well do not flow
details, and
concluding sentence
The student selects The student selects The student did not
appropriate resources references but has select supporting
which complements difficulty materials to gain
the assignment collaborating meaning from this
important aspects to assignment
achieve a well-
rounded picture
Information clearly Information relates to Information has
relates to the main the main topic. No little or nothing to
topic. It provides 1-2 details and/or do with the main
supporting details examples are given topic
and/or examples
Material covers Material scantly Materials do not
required content and covers required cover the required
mostly focusing on content and/or content and/or
career chosen content focus is content focus is
vaguely relevant irrelevant
Allied Health Career Writing Assignment.

See the syllabus for the due date.

No grammatical, spelling Almost no A few grammatical, Many grammatical,
or punctuation errors. grammatical, spelling spelling or spelling, and
Mechanics or punctuation errors punctuation errors punctuation errors
(1-3) (4-6) (7+)

Comments

Total Score:

/36

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