In my research I am targeting two audiences, nursing
professors, and nurses. Both audiences are important in my argument because
nursing professors are the nurses with greater knowledge, and they have the
authority to communicate information with nursing students and nurses working
in the field. Nurses are important because they are the ones who need the
information that I am giving to them. The genre’s for my academic and non-
academic audience are mostly the same, but some are slightly different.
With my
academic audience, the professors are the most credible subjects. Nursing
professors have the knowledge, and support they need to conduct professional
research. Sources that are credible to professors are mostly other forms of
research from colleagues, academic journals such as AWHONN Lifelines, American Journal Of Health-System Pharmacy, Modern
Healthcare, and other peer-reviewed medical journals such as these. The
specific genre of these articles includes headers, bullet points, and sometimes
charts. The genre usually begins with an abstract to summarize what they are
proposing. Generally the researchers will discuss laws first to provide
knowledge that is needed to understand their proposal, or rules that effect
their proposal, and then break of certain pieces of their research in to
headings. The endings sometimes give recommendations to the audience they are
targeting, and then their final heading is reserved for references that they believe
to be credible and reliable references.
In other
sources and forms of research nursing professors sometimes conduct experiments.
When the research is an experiment the genre tends to be somewhat different.
These genres include procedures, materials, methods, results, and sometimes
include visuals such as charts. The main difference between the two separate
genres professors use is that the first is proposing and communicating their
thoughts about an issue, the second is an actual study performed with facts.
Nurses who
do not hold degrees as high as professors and work in hospitals, nursing homes,
doctor’s offices, or other medical settings receive their information somewhat
different. They can receive their information from their professors who post
their research in academic journals which makes the genre the same. Nurses
attempt to get their information from secured sites that are labeled “credible”
by their company. Sometimes nurses receive information on blogs but these can
be debated as “credible” so generally they try to stay away from blogs that is
accessible to the society. The nurses get information from sites that support
their company for instance the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
website is labeled as “credible”. Websites considered credible are websites
with .gov, or .edu. These genres also have headings that break down certain
topics but they also have the option to contact the researcher, in case further
explanation is needed, and there are ways of e-mailing, printing, and sharing
the link to others so other nurses may receive the information. this could be a
form of communicating their information to other nurses.
Works Cited
AWHONN Lifelines
American Journal Of Health-System Pharmacy
Modern Healthcare
Maradiegue, A. "From
Research To Policy In Pediatric Nursing. The Health Insurance Portability And
Accountability Act And Adolescents." Pediatric Nursing 28.4 (2002):
417-420. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 28 Sept. 2012.
Citation added:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.cdc.gov/>.
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