The goal of this project is for you to take the problem/issue/question from your intended field that you worked with in Project 2, and use it to develop an a
The goal of this project is for you to take the problem/issue/question from your intended field that you worked with in Project 2, and use it to develop an academic literature review and proposal of the genre this literature review is MEANT for (i.e. this literature review would go into a grant application, or a study proposal, or an IRB application, etc.).Literature reviews are a particular genre that helps researchers across disciplines position their work within larger scholarly conversations, so that readers can understand the relevance of a project or argument. Often composed as parts of larger projects (to frame research proposals, as an overview of best practices, as part of a longer publication or as a standalone meta-review), writers use literature reviews to synthesize information, compare and contrast ideas, and clearly describe relationships between well-cited texts to present their own work accurately and persuasively in the context of the scholarly conversation. Ito draw on some of those methods to conduct your research for this .The skill of writing this common scholarly genre is one that will be of use to writers in nearly all disciplines. We will engage with focused analysis of this genre to develop familiarity with the specific writerly moves needed to compose it with confidence.
Learning Objectives
- Conduct secondary research to investigate a research question, problem or issue in a profession, field, or discourse community (RESEARCH).
- Analyze the genre of the literature review from the student’s discipline or profession to understand the ways professionals in the field engage with and rhetorical conventions they use to communicate their research and findings (READ).
- Use a flexible writing process and varied technologies to compose a scholarly literature review that attends to the expected organization, format, and style of the assignment ().
- Use reflective writing to describe developing knowledge about writing (especially writing in one’s discipline or profession) and about oneself as a writer (including one’s ability to plan, monitor, and evaluate one’s writing process and texts) (REFLECT).
Task
????For this , you will continue your work with the research problem/issue/question you’ve been working with in Projects 1 and 2. For most, you will begin by presenting a brief introduction of the major historical developments contributing to this topic in your field, and then spend the rest of the Literature Review mapping out the contemporary work being done on the topic. Alternative approaches are certainly valid but should be decided in consultation with your instructor.By the time you begin working on drafting your literature review, you will have already done most of the significant work required for this project. You will have identified and revised research questions, identified key texts, created a working bibliography, and organized notes to help you synthesize sources and identify gaps, questions, problems, or tensions in the scholarly conversation.To develop a revised, literature review , we will continue to move through several smaller, yet still formal scaffolding steps:
- Developing a detailed genre analysis of literature reviews
- Examining syntax and transitions at a sentence level
- Submitting a draft for peer review, and
- Using that peer and teacher feedback to work through – and sentence-level revision and to craft the literature review for a specific audience and purpose.
In your literature review, you will follow the standard genre conventions uncovered during our early analyses. At minimum, your review should include a discussion of the central topic you are investigating and at least two sub-topics that help you focus your research, but it can have more.As implied above, we will review examples of published literature reviews to analyze how writers organize discussions of a major topic and then help readers navigate through a set of related sub-topics. We will also discuss how to frame sources such that readers understand the “broader conversation” about these topics and sub-topics, and how to establish a “scholarly niche” for yourself–a corner of the conversation you would be interested in entering as a professional.
Reflective Memo
“I suppose I think this reflection is so important because without it, we live the stories others have scripted for us: in a most unreflective, unhealthy way. And I think the stories we make-whether inside the classroom or out, whether externalized or not-construct us, one by one by one. Cumulatively. So I think it's important to tell lots of stories where we get to construct many selves for us to attempt, some we continue to inhabit.”Kathleen Yancey, Reflection in the Writing Classroom, p. 53Your final for this project must also include a 350- to 500-word reflective memo addressed to either yourself or your instructor. This memo will tell the story of your learning and writing during this project. Please address the following prompts in your reflection:
- What were your personal goals for the project? How would you rate your progress toward those goals?
- How would you rate your progress toward achieving the project’s learning outcomes (listed below)?
- Tell your story of learning in this project. Relate one or more key moments from class, from your independent work, or from communicating with peers or the instructor. How has your work on this project connected with what you already knew/know? Is this what you expected to learn? Why or why not? What else do you need to learn? How will you go about learning it?
Evaluation
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- Write an introduction that includes brief context and a mapping statement for this literature review.
- Integrate discussion of a minimum of 8 scholarly sources relevant to your research question.
- Write body (as many as needed) synthesizing the secondary sources you’ve located and evaluated for this project
- Write a paragraph or two in which you indicate/propose a specific academic genre where you might plan for this literature review to go, as well as providing a rationale for why this proposed genre would be a good fit for your project.
- Cite your sources, both throughout the project and in a works cited or references section, using the citation conventions appropriate to your field (I.e., MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)
- Design and format your project for accessibility. Use section (H1) and (if necessary) subsection (H2) headers to organize your content.
- Revise and edit your writing, preparing a clear final draft (2500-3000 words) for submission.
- Reflect on your research and writing process and learning and compose your post-project reflective memo following the guidelines for that task. Submit your memo to Canvas along with your final version of your project
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this is the intro, be sure to follow directions very carefully and relate it to the research question in my previous projects.
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Hawra alabdulla
Dr.Varty
ENG 3010
26 January 2025
Discourse community of dental hygiene
For my research essay, I'll be focusing on the dental hygiene field. This discourse community is one I plan on entering in the future. As someone who has many family members in this field or in the dental field in general, I have a good amount of knowledge on this topic. To get more information on my essay, I'm going to approach my brother-in-law for an interview and pose the question, do you feel comfortable in your field?
I once was at my sister's house, and my brother-in-law had just come home from work with a glum-looking face on. My sister immediately noticed and asked him what happened. He told her he thought he hated his job. I looked at him, confused, he used to be so excited to graduate and work with his degree. What happened? He mentioned how his superiors would treat him differently and would constantly be harsher on him than anyone else. This raised the question for me: was it because he's clearly Middle Eastern, or was it because his name was Mohammed? My brother-in-law engaged with dentists and other hygienists. He would say he puts all he can into his work and to his patients. I know these are topics that matter because, in this day and age, we shouldn't be experiencing discrimination in the workplace.
To see how my brother-in-law felt at this discourse community I decided the first piece of research I would do is an interview. The first question I asked him was: Were you mistreated during the program? He answered pretty clearly and said no. My next question was, would you say this discourse community is comfortably yours? He said not really, this community is predominantly white females. Next I asked do you think it'll be easier if I'm a woman in the field? He said possibly, but the fact that you’re a hijabi might cause some discrimination. Then I asked him, If you could go back, would you change your career? He said even though I've had bad moments I do like my job. Next, Do you think their mistreatment is purposeful or it's underlying racism? He said it could be a little bit of both but people won’t want to admit that it’s
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racism. And my last question was, what should I do differently than you? He said he couldn’t tell me that because everyone has their own experience.
Dental hygienists all form a distinct discourse community with a shared goal: their commitment to advancing and caring for oral health. An important part of this community is the ADHA, the american dental hygiene association. This association consists of over 185,000 dental hygienists who all share the common goal of oral health. Through the journal of dental hygiene I explored topics like fluoride treatment , patient compliance and more. Our current administration in the United States would like to remove fluoride from water which increases cavity rates. They wish to do this under the idea that they want chemical free water. If you were to ask any person in the dental field they would be able to tell you how ridiculous that statement is and would only take oral care backwards.
My last source would be from a local clinic of a hygienist I shadowed. She took her time to explain to me everything within her discourse community. As a hijabi woman in the field, she and I share a very similar experience. Except her experience would be what my future might look like. She told me one particular thing that stood out to me, she said in this community she wasn’t only working against low quality or bad oral health. As a hijabi woman in this field she felt as though she had to consistently prove to people that she was just as good as anyone else at her job. She said her experience was a bit harder than expected because she’s had patients who would refuse treatment as long as she was their hygienist. I asked her what she did in those situations, she told me “what could I do but step back and honor their request?” Hearing her experience didn’t discourage me though, rather it motivated me to prove people like that wrong. My hijab wasn’t a testimony on how well I will be able to do my job and the fact that people do believe that is truly saddening.
My findings from the two interviews and journal I read was that people like me, my brother-in-law, and Fatima, the dental hygienist I spoke to, would likely always face that discrimination. But what I found more interesting is regardless of those hardships they would all have one thing in common in this discourse community: their love for oral health. These professionals always have to adapt with new technology, advance patient care, and maintain their professionalism.
In conclusion, this research essay showed me that dental hygienists are way more than just the people who clean your teeth. They are educators,advocates for oral health, researches, they offer so much more than what we thought to the community. Reflecting on my research, I'm
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amazed by this discourse community's continual learning and inclusivity . With that being said I’m left with 3 questions for the remainder of the semester, the first one being how can dental hygienists reach more underserved communities? My second question is what role will AI have in the advancement of patient care? My last question is what can cultural competent training do to improve patient trust and outcomes in places that aren’t as used to diversity?
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Reflective memo
Goals and Achievement
My primary goal was to familiarize myself with the dental hygiene discourse community,
the potentials and challenges it as a field offers especially to people of my background. I also
sought to develop my ability to conduct research and writing in a narrative format. To that end, I
would categorize my progress towards these goals as significant. The interviews conducted, and
the journal articles read expanded my knowledge base, and the draft that I prepared deepened my
understanding while helping me to structure my insights. There is still scope to be more effective
in my writing with respect to clarity and engagement, however.
Progress Made Towards Learning Outcomes
This project required me to engage in critical discourse analysis, appropriate research
techniques, and organize my arguments in an effective manner. I think I have made relevant
progress towards these outcomes. For example, their analysis of the interviews allowed me to
relate individual’s experiences to the broader picture. Utilization of the ADHA journal was a
good demonstration of the fact that I am able to use credible literature in my narrative. On the
other hand, the improvement I want to make is to the ability to evaluate how systemic issues
affect the discourse communities.
During my learning, my brother in law’s interview was quite revealing. His anecdotes
brought forth the detailed patterns of discrimination that exist within the dental profession. This
encounter forced me to question how their culture is likely to influence their professional
identity. My exchange with Fatima, the dental hygienist brought into focus the need to be
resilient and the need for representation in overcoming these obstacles. These conversations
made sense with what I had learnt about cultural prejudice.
I was unaware of the degree of disenfranchisement minority groups encounter in
professional spaces. This understanding has made me think deeper about inclusivity and
advocacy in compassion. There is a lot more that I need to learn about how to effectively combat
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these barriers, including cultural sensitivity and policy changes. I intend to review more literature
and try to find ways to speak to those who practice so that I can learn how it is done in reality.
This project is commendable and it has uplifted me to take some steps towards developing and
advocating for inclusiveness and equitability within the dental hygiene profession.
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CITATIONS:
"Fluoride Varnishes in Caries Prevention." Journal of Dental Hygiene, vol. 78, no. 1, 2004, pp. 10–15. https://jdh.adha.org/external-ref?access_num=15467304&link_type=MED
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DENTAL ETHICS
By: Hawra Alabdulla
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Introduction to Ethical Practices in Dentistry
1
Narrowed Focus: Aesthetic Dentistry
4 Problem Statement:
Ethical Conflicts in Dentistry
2
Research Strategies and Source
5
Refined Research Question:
Are aesthetic dental
professionals ethical in patient
care?
3
Key numbers
6
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ethical Implications and Overtreatment Concern
7 Conclusion:
Key Insights and Future Direction
8
Introduction to Ethical Practices in Dentistry Understanding the Foundations of Dental Ethics
Overview of ethical practices
Ethical practices in dentistry encompass a range of principles that guide professionals in their interactions with patients, ensuring respect, fairness, and transparency in all procedures.
Importance of patient care At the core of ethical dentistry is a commitment to patient-centered care, which prioritizes the health and wellbeing of patients above all else, fostering trust and long-term relationships.
Consent in dentistry
Informed consent is a critical component, entailing that patients are fully educated about their treatment
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