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.

 
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SLR and Education in the Social Science Field

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Education majors fall under the social science umbrella. This is also true of majors like psychology, communication, social work, and museology. Thus, I’d need to use the IMRaD format when writing papers, especially research papers. In fact, I’ve already written a research paper using IMRaD format for my EDUC 245 class; my researched question involved ADHD. As someone with ADHD siblings, it was the most natural topic for me.

IMRaD papers, in case you’ve forgotten from the readings, has different sections for the introduction (or abstract), methods, results, and discussion. So, the ‘a’ in IMRaD comes from ‘and.’ While writing my paper, I found that the style of IMRaD papers flows well and divvies up the information into digestible quantities.

As far as language goes, I have found it’s a good idea to use qualifiers, like the book mentions. Words like ‘might,’ ‘could,’ and ‘likely’ fit into this. In general, social science papers should be concise and formal. This means broad adjectives, like ‘super’ and ‘very,’ should be avoided since they are not specific or precise enough to be presented as factual. It’s easy for the mind to drift away from precision; I often find that the longer I try to focus, the more my paragraphs look like my unfiltered train of thought threw up on the Google Doc. So, I know it’s important to know what words to avoid, so when I edit my papers, I know what words to swap out, or trash altogether.

 

Regarding types of reference, education majors should end up using APA in the classes for their specific majors. APA applies to many of the social sciences.

It’s very important for college students to understand how the different parts of SLR applies to them personally. We’ll all be taking more and more classes for our specific majors as time goes on and will need to know how to write appropriate papers for our fields of study. Researching that information now is best because by the time we’re consistently writing papers of our field’s style, we should already be familiar with the structure, language, and reference will need to use.

These are the websites I looked at to figure out what field education falls under and more about writing under the social science umbrella: https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/citations/citationwhich. https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/academicwriting#:~:text=IV.%20Language%20The%20investigation%20of%20research%20problems%20in,to%20follow%20your%20line%20of%20thinking%20without%20difficulty.

The images are from educationcareerarticles.com/education-articles/majors-overview/information-on-masters-degree-programs-in-social-science/ and https://trends-worldwide16.blogspot.com/2021/04/format-of-imrad-thesis-example-of.html.

 
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