Kasey West

Professor Graves

Lang 120

10/12/18
Observation notes & Annotated bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Interview: For my interview I spoke with Amanda Maxwell. She is the advisor
for the health and wellness department. I spoke with her because she attended
medical school and had come insight on that. She spoke with me about how most
of the writing they do is very formuliec and straight to the point. There is no mood
or feeling to it. She went into detail and said the genre of writing they did was lab
reports. When she said that a light bulb lit up in my brain because I have done
plently of those and it made sense now that she said was very straight forward
writing. The type of writing is formatted in a specific way so whoever is reading it
which is usualy doctors and nurses so they can find what they are looking for
without having to read the whole thing.

Article we have read: The reading that I feel has been the most helpful with
this type of perspective would be Villanueava. I say this because he talks about in
his writing that he went to the library and found scholars and wrote just like them
so he would make better grades on his writing. However then he realizes that his
writing has his own style and that he enjoyed writing that way much better. I relate
to this because I would muhc rather write a lab report than a humanties paper
because it is something that intrests me. Sure there are forumlas that I need to
follow with this type of writing but just like any type of genre there is a a similarity
in them.
Victor Villanueva's memoir, Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color (NCTE,
1993) pages 66-77

Other sources: A source that I have looked at since my freshman year that
has helped me with my lab reports would be the article “ Some Tips on Writing Lab
Reports”. My professor last told me that if I was having trouble to read this article
and it would help me. The first paragraph talks about how lab reports are basically
a detailed journal of what you find during an experiement. This is 100% true
because you are bascially just picking out what is important in your findings and
summarizing it and putting it on paper.
Chiou, Wun. “Some Tips on Writing Lab Reports.” Tips on Writing Lab Reports,
www.chem.ucla.edu/~gchemlab/labnotebook_web.htm.

Rhetorical Situation & Purposes

This genre appears in the medical field to inform the reader of the patients past
experiences. When a patient is at the ER for example they are checked into a
database. This database has their name, DOB, and the current medications that
they take and also the last time they were at the ER and for what. Also their familiy
history, and their medical hsitory this includes past surgeries. This is what the
nurse reads while they have you in the triage and they go over the information that
is listed in this chart and make sure it is correct. Then they do a physcial exam
which includes your weight, temperature, blood pressure, and sometimes some
blood because they can read alot from your blood. Therefore the doctors, and
nurses are the people that see these and can write things in them. It is important
that you enter in the correct information because the doctors are reading over this
information to decided a plan of action for their diagnosis. When writing things they
do not spend alot of time on them. A lot of things are left in short hand because
they only want you to write what is important. This genre is hard to look at in great
amounts because it’s patient and you are not allowed to release that info without
the patients consent. However the person that I interviewed knew a website that
had a view on them which was very helpful. After the writer writes the information
in the database about the patient they have hope that by having all the important
information condesned and in one place the doctor can read it and figure out the
diagnosis of the patient.

Typical Content
There are many questions thay this genre can raise because when it comes to help
there are many things that can cause your cheif complaint. That is why it starts out
very broad and as you do more test and put them into the database it will narrow it
down more. The support that is used for this type of genre is the test that are done
because they dont lie. They support the diagnosis that are given because you can
say they have the flu from the symtoms they have and the test that is doen is the
flu test that looks at the bacteria in your system and your temperature. If it is high
and your test comes back postive it is highly likely you have the flu. One of the
hardest parts to writing this type of genre is decided what is important and what
isn’t. Therefore nothing in these can be ignored because it has all been valued
enough to be put into thr database.

Structural Features
This type of genre is organized in a very specific way because they have diffrent
headings for sections so if the reader is looking for something they can scroll right
to it. The sections include cheif complaint, history of present illness, surgical
history, medical history, social history, family history, allergies, medications,
physical examination, pertinent diagnostic test, assesment and plan. In each
sections you do not get a lot of space to explain in great detail so thats why it is
imperitive that you explain the important things.

Language/Style Patterns
One word this is used alot is the patient, you will never see in this genre he or she
or their name. They refer to the person as the patient said or the patient feels this
way. Like I have said before the most you will write in a section is 3-5 sentence.
One thing that has been different then the charts in the ER from these examples is
that the assesment and plans are like full paragraphs of all the different things that
could of caused the patients cheif complaint. When writing these you arent leaning
a certain way you are very straight forward with what you are saying because you
dont want to make any assumptions until you know exaclty what it is. The vocab
that they use in these types of genres would be the short hand that you have to
learn and memerize.
“Medicine Clerkship (Inpatient).” History and Physical Examination (H&P) Examples -
Medclerk, 3 June 2014, www.med.unc.edu/medclerk/education/grading/history-and-
physical-examination-h-p-examples.