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RD115 Academic Thinking & Reading

PORTFOLIO: Health & Wellness

Reading Log

Reading

Chapter 6, “People” - Well by Sandro Galea    (You may use the VitalSource link in our Canvas shell to access this chapter of the text or if you have purchased a hard copy you are welcome to use that.)

Read & Analyze

Complete the following tasks.  Word process everything:

1. Generate a minimum of 2 guide questions from the title and then record your background knowledge on the topics by attempting to answer them. 

2. List three (3)  purely factual statements from the essay.  If you must omit phrases that blend opinion into the statement, do so.

3. Write a reader’s outline.

c. Paraphrase the information; do not copy text directly from the original.

c. In the format of your notes, make it very clear what the thesis of the article is and distinguish it from the evidence that supports it. Major supporting ideas must be distinguished from important, minor support as well.

1. List the types of evidence the author uses to support his thesis and link it to a direct quote in the essay. The quote should signal the type of evidence used.

1. Analyze the following passages for tone. Describe the tone using as specific a description as you can. Identify the words and phrases that signal the tone.

***Annotations are not required for this task.***

5. Analyze the following passages for tone. 

A. Getting to the nearest high-risk pregnancy specialist was difficult for Tara Perez, a 35-year-old with type 1 diabetes. Tara lives in Cartersville, GA, a small town that can be up to three hours from Atlanta during rush hour. Because of her condition, it was necessary for her to see this doctor regularly.

Fortunately, Tara’s local ob/gyn teamed with an Atlanta telehealth company, so every few weeks when she went for her checkup, she was also able to video-chat with maternal-fetal doctor Anne Patterson, M.D. “It was weird the first time I saw Dr. Patterson on the computer screen,” Tara says, but once she adjusted to the idea, “there were no disadvantages to not being in her office.” Her ob/gyn performed her basic exam, then conducted a special ultrasound that Dr. Patterson could immediately review. Skipping the long-distance drive meant that the appointments didn’t take much time away from Tara’s home fragrance consulting business. Most importantly, it allowed her to have top-notch medical care. She delivered her healthy baby girl, Selene, in her preferred local hospital last year.

B. We live in the golden age of diversity, right? I figure if we are all special now, my school experiences, which happened decades ago, would at some point be outdated, simply an end note from the bad old days of the 1980s, a time long ago when everyone listened to Def Leppard and wore stonewashed jeans, when rattails were cool and kids were sorted into “smart” and “stupid” reading groups, and normal reigned supreme. Well, that was naïve, wasn’t it?

Every day, in every community, all around the world, people with differences are demeaned. Whether they have autism, cerebral palsy, deafness, visual impairment, dyslexia, depression, ADHD or something else, they are being treated as abnormal and deficient in school and at work, as well as in families and communities. And there are consequences.

C. BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. BMI does not measure body fat directly, but research has shown that BMI is moderately correlated with more direct measures of body fat obtained from skinfold thickness measurements, bioelectrical impedance, densitometry (underwater weighing), dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and other methods. Furthermore, BMI appears to be as strongly correlated with various metabolic and disease outcome as are these more direct measures of body fatness. In general, BMI is simple method of screening for weight category, for example underweight, normal or healthy weight, overweight, and obesity.

Scoring

Element & Weight	A	B	C	D	F
Guide questions & background knowledge 10%	Questions clearly connect to chapter and book’s topics Background knowledge is clearly, thoughtfully recorded	Questions connect to chapter and book’s topics Background knowledge is thoughtfully recorded Not as clear or specific as an “A”	Questions connect to chapter and book’s topics. Background knowledge is recorded but overly general and lacks thought	Attempted but questions are not clear or not connected to the topic of chapter or book. Little or no attempt to connect to background knowledge	Not attempted
Factual Statements 15%	All statements identified are purely factual	At least 2 are factual and 1 has a slight blend	At least 1 is factual with the other 2 having a slight blend	n/a	All three are either blended or not factual
Reader’s Outline 45%	Complete, paraphrased, organized correctly	Minor omissions or errors	Some omissions or errors, weak paraphrasing	Incomplete, incorrect, limited paraphrasing	Not attempted
Types of Evidence 15%	All types of evidence listed correctly along with the correct quote.	Minor errors or omissions	Major error or omission	No quotes listed so unable to determine if you understood signals	Not attempted
RecognizeTone 15%	All 3 passages described accurately and specifically. Words signalling the tone are identified.	All 3 passages described accurately though less specifically. Words signalling the tone are identified.	2 of 3 passages described accurately. Words signalling the tone are identified.	Fewer than 2 passages are described accurately. Words signalling the tone are not identified.	Not attempted