Alina Vamanu, blog post #10

Most of the papers "outside my discipline" that I have read as a tutor have been online papers. I have dealt with a few applications to the College of Nursing and a paper on cancer research. As a tutor offering feedback on these essays and papers, I did not feel that they required much prior knowledge of nursing or medical scholarship. The application essay prompts invited prospective nursing students to reflect on their experiences with diversity and community service, so these were pretty easy to go through and comment on. I mostly encouraged students to be as specific as possible and describe in detail particular events or activities they had been involved in. The paper on cancer research was a review of the scholarly literature on the association between consumption of smokeless non-tobacco products and oral cancer, and it was meant for publication. This paper seemed to be a very early draft; it had many problems with organization, presentation of findings, grammar, and style. What made it difficult to read was not so much the scientific content (which was pretty clear overall), as the fact that it was not very well written (ideas were often unclear, and run-on sentences and grammar errors abounded). So, I have not really come across any papers containing difficult or obscure content. The papers "outside my discipline" that I have read were largely similar to the ones I am used to reading. Their authors struggled with clarity, specificity of statements, organization, and grammar, so I felt comfortable helping them.

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