This assignment asks you to reflect on what you have read and reviewed about early nursing, the obstacles as well as the highlights in the early profession and to create an outline of a 5 paragraph essay . The concession paragraph will not be included in this outline. The focus of the outline should be based on a thesis statement taking some stand on the trends and influences in early nursing and/or early nursing writers. This can be in the form of “Florence Nightingale was limited in her view of professional nursing” or “War is good for the nursing profession.” There are many, many viewpoints that you can write about.
The second purpose of this assignment is to have you put your new skills of scholarly writing into practice. Review the steps of scholarly writing before putting together the outline. You will need to develop an opening sentence, thesis statement, transitions, topic sentences, reasons, and closing statement. I am not asking you to fill in all of the writing, that part is easy. You are simply to put the structure together. You may even get ideas through your discussion forum earlier in the module. Be sure to review the rubric before putting your outline together.
Please include at least 2 outside references and correctly cite in text and with a reference page.
Second to last step: Run this through an editing/spellcheck system (like MSWord Editor) and let technology help you with spelling, word usage, and grammar. This step will become more important as the course progresses.