Activity 5
There is a personal reflective essay on the next page. Read it now, and pay attention to how the writer has structured this piece. This essay was written by a student on an access to nursing course, in response to the following brief:Write a personal reflective essay in which you discuss a social or medical issue affecting children. This essay should be suitable for inclusion in a new magazine called Modern Parenting. After you read this essay, answer the following questions:
- What information is included in the beginning (introduction)?
- What information is included in the middle (body of the essay)?
- Where does the ending (conclusion) start?
- What was the writer’s purpose?
- How did the writing meet the writer’s purpose?
- How did the writing meet the needs of the reader?
- What was the main example that was used?
- What were the main arguments?
- Did the writer analyse the issues?
- How well did the writer link and signpost from one paragraph to the next?
