Assignment task: This assignment requires you to locate two pieces of professional writing in the field of physician assistants and analyze the rhetorical choices made by the writers. Your analysis will focus on the writers' styles, purposes, and conceptions of their audiences. Based on this analysis, you will compose an argument about the core rhetorical strategies employed in each document, and what those strategies tell you about writing in your field or discipline.
The Two pieces of articles used for this:
1. Hooker, R. S., Moloney-Johns, A. J., & McFarland, M. M. (2019, December 27). Patient satisfaction with physician assistant/associate care: An international scoping review. Human resources for health.
2. Alison C. Essary, K. S. B. (2021, February 4). Burnout and job and career satisfaction in the physician assistant profession: A review of the literature. National Academy of Medicine.
Draft an essay analyzing these pieces of writing and explaining how your sources' rhetorical choices might inform your own development as a writer in your field or profession.
- For what purposes are you most likely to write?
- What are the most important elements to consider regarding your audiences?
- How will you establish your credibility or authority with these audiences?
- What stylistic strategies are most often employed?