| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 147 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Teaching public health |
| Contents |
Writing across the life course -- When you can't remove the pump handle, reduce harm -- Designing writing assignments for public health classes -- Assessment involves much more than assigning a grade -- Examples of public health writing assignments |
| Summary |
"Teaching Public Health Writing argues that public health schools and programs need to make writing practice and mentoring central to the curriculum. Writing is a process that demands patience, humility, and deliberate practice. Write, revise, submit, receive feedback, revise again. All writers develop their confidence, patience, and voice over the course of their lives. Public health students are learning to understand and translate technical content from a wide array of disciplines into clear, concise, engaging documents for vastly different audiences and purposes. It's a time-consuming, anxiety-inducing, and painstaking process. Yet, many public health professors expect their students to arrive in their graduate and upper-level undergraduate classes already knowing how to write engaging and informative policy briefs, literature reviews, research proposals, and many other types of technical documents. This is an unrealistic expectation that undermines both students and their professors. The author blends composition theory with a multilevel social determinants analysis, the life course, harm reduction, and other public health approaches to offer a new way to think about the place of writing in public health education. This call to action offers recommendations for mentoring student writers, supporting professors, and fostering writing community and dialogue at the institutional level"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on September 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Writing.
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Medical writing.
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Communication in public health.
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Public health -- Study and teaching
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Writing
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Public Health -- education
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Students, Public Health
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writing (processes)
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Escritura
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Escritos médicos
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Salud pública -- Estudio y enseñanza
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Public health -- Study and teaching
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Medical writing
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Communication in public health
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Writing
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022014937 |
| ISBN |
9780197576489 |
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0197576486 |
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0197576478 |
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9780197576496 |
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0197576494 |
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9780197576472 |
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