SLR in Recreational Therapy
Structure, language, and reference are three key factors when it comes to academic writing. This is especially true when you are writing within your desired major or career field. Personally, I am an aspiring Recreational Therapist, which falls under applied sciences. For this field, I must keep in mind the structure, language, and references for any writing I do because it will be key in providing information for me, other professionals, and any of my patients.
For this career, I might be writing reports or evaluations, so the structure of how I write these reports or documents is crucial. I must be neat and professional, while also following the guidelines of healthcare’s writing standards. Most documents I will write will be looked at by other healthcare professionals, so I will more than likely use professional terms and language. However, if I am writing up a report that will be shared with a patient, I might use more practical words and will keep things simple. I also must follow the APA style if I am writing a paper or research report. This is what all applied science disciplines follow, so it is important that I use the correct references when completing the paper along with my citations.
These are all extremely important to me because being a Recreational Therapists comes with lots of record keeping, repots, and overall professional writing. I must know how to structure my papers, the appropriate language to use, and the correct references to use. These three things will ensure that I am efficiently writing in the workplace and keeping up good standards of writing.
Using language, structure, and references is important for students to learn now so that they will be on the right track once they enter the work force. Writing is critical to all aspects of life and work, so being able to write professionally and correctly now will be beneficial through all walks of life. Learning about SLR now also gives you the room to grow and improve on those skills so once you are ready to venture into the work force you will be prepared and have experience with good academic writing designed for you.
I’d first like to say that I really liked learning a little bit about what a recreational therapist is, and also how you were able to apply the three key things to writing into your explanation as well. writing like you mentioned will be a very big part of your profession, and it is good to practice, and prefect your writing before working. Most of my experiences with different crowds like mentioned, is knowing your audience and also knowing who you are writing for or who might be reading your work in general is key. I think the best thing to do when trying to gauge who you might be writing for, like you said you might be writing for patients, so you might want to go to a simpler form and where it is easier to understand what you’re talking about. When writing for colleagues, since they would know and expect a certain format it is best to stick to a more advanced style of writing if needed, but also try to keep it easy in the sense you want to make it where people you work with also understand what’re saying. Another thing I liked was how you mentioned some of the other things that you have to do/deal with while working like keeping records, reports, and other forms of writing. It’s good to know how much work that you’ll have to do everyday and how much busy work comes with each job. Most people don’t realize that most jobs require a person to do a lot of writing and paperwork throughout the day and, this you can spend half of your day on work for one person. Most jobs need you to be good at writing and mastering these practices now, and while you are here at school is key for your success. And congratulations on picking a major and knowing what you want to do that’s not always easy to do and that is also a really interesting profession.