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Essay Instructions: proposition of fact (topic:Academic physicians use placebos in clinical practice and believe in the mind-body connection)

proposition of fact relevant to a significant social or political issue. Propositions of fact focus attention on "defining" and demonstrating the "location," "quantity," and "state" of objects or phenomena relevant to subsequent value and policy considerations, but they do not in themselves entail any specific normative value or policy postion.

1. You must defend a proposition of fact that you consider to be relevant and significant to a future proposition of value or policy, but you must not argue values or policies in this essay.

2. The essay must be carefully and clearly structured according to the standard parts of a formal essay. The introduction should establish the significance of your topic for your audience, establish your thesis statement and offer an initial summary of how you intend to develop your argument. The body should be a clear series of proofs, all related tightly and immediately to the proposition of fact. This will include a thorough defintion of the key terms of the proposition and the use of the topics of fact argument to establish the proposition. The conclusion should summarize your argement and remind your reader as to why the topic is significant and important.

3. Your proofs must include at least five different sources of information that you can defend as being credible according to the criteria set up in lecture. At least two souces must come from a "goverment document" No more than two of your sources may come from popular magazines or newspapers.

Essay Instructions: Proposition of Fact (Proposition: Placebos can have actual benefits to patients)

1. You must defend a proposition of fact that you consider to be relevant and significant to a future proposition of value or policy, but you must not argue values or policies in this essay.

IMPORTANT!!
2. The essay must be carefully and clearly strucutured according to the standard parts of a formal essay. The introduction should establish the significance of your topic for your audience, establish your thesis statement (the thesis statement is what you want your audience to do- or in this instance believe- as a result of your argument), and offer an initial summary of how you intend to develop your argument.
The body should have 4 steps process.
(1) locating immediate cause: why is the issue being discussed right now? what are people in the field discussing?
(2) historical background: investigating the contemporary and historical background of your propositions subject provides you with pertinent information that helps you find the issue
(3) define key terms and creating the primary inference: (key terms: placebo, actual benefits and patient) (primary inferene: the interpretation of a proposition made on the basis of your defintion of terms)
(4) defermining the issues: the reasons that prove proposition beyond reasonable doubt.

3. Because we are operating in the realm of "public advocacy" you must be sure that you address your audience as a particular "public", as a group or collectivity that has a commom set of interests which function to define them as a community of some sort. Remember, your ultimate goal is to seek sort of "public" action, bot personal or private action, and thus you want to talk to your audience as if they are "citizens" of some sort and not private individuals.

4. Your proofs must include at least 4 different sources of information that you can defend as being credible according to the criteria set up in lectures. At least 2 sources must come from a "GOVERMENT DOCUMENT." No more than 2 of your sources may come from magazines or newspapers.

Essay Instructions: In my issue paper I want to discuss the ethical implications to nurses for giving placebos. It is my understanding that currently, if a patient is not informed by his/her health care provider about placebos, it is unethical for a nurse to administer a placebo to a patient. It is my opinion that this undermines the effect of the pacebo and that nurses should be able to administer a placebo if prescribed by a patient's primary health care provider, whether the patient is informed or not. Please follow the guidelines provided for writing this paper.
5th edition APA citation of sources in the body of the paper is expected. Reference page must be typed according to APA 5th edition format.

***References must be from within the past five years
Section heading Levels 1 and 3 are to be used for this paper.
? Level 1 is the title of
your paper, which is
placed at the one-inch
margin at the top of the
page that begins the
body of the paper.
? Level 3 is used for your
section headings
(division).
? NO section heading is
needed for the
Introduction to or the
Conclusion of the paper.
Type of sources:
? Course textbook
? Peer-reviewed professional
nursing journal-first author
must be a registered nurse.
? Book on the topic
? Acceptable online sources:
- Government sites
- Professional organization
sites

You must use one peer-reviewed professional nursing article in writing your paper.
Section headers for each paper will be:
Description of … (the trend/issue/culture must be named.)
Impact of ….on Health Care.
An introduction should precede the Description.
A conclusion must be at the end of the Impact section.
Remember a section header is not needed for these two divisions of your paper.

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Essay Instructions: a one page research paper topic during medical research when should we do a placebo trial and when shouldn;t we do a placebo trial. Is it ethicly right to give a patient a placebo during a research study. Please not to many quotes from resources. Must be a deep dice in to the ethicl question on this topic. I will provide two of the sources. Please refer to the area cincerned in the AZT study resource and the Ebola Resource i will provide link or paper to assist to answer this ethical question. My be perfect grammer as well as spelling etc.... One page is fime.