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Write a five-paragraph essay using the same article. Select an essay question from the choices below. Include your own background knowledge and references to the reading throughout your essay, but you don’t need to conduct outside research.
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to respond critically to a reading assignment in a five-paragraph essay.
Relevant Learning Outcomes: LO01, LO02, and LO05
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Choose an article from the text from this list:
“Personal support workers risk their own health to care for others (Links to an external site.)” by Bronwyn Oatley of the National Observer
Personal support workers come up short on permanent wage hikes in Ontario budget” (Links to an external site.)by Rob Ferguson of the Toronto Star
2. Write a five-paragraph essay using the same article. Select an essay question from the choices below. Include your own background knowledge and references to the reading throughout your essay, but you don’t need to conduct outside research.
Essay Questions (Select one):
For article 1: (Links to an external site.)”Personal support workers risk their own health to care for others” (Links to an external site.)
A. “When people come to my [PSW] info session, they always say: ‘Can I get a job when I finish this?’ [The] response is a resounding yes.” PSWs often find work easily after they graduate, but is the guarantee of a job worth the risks the profession poses to their health? Yes or No? Explain your answer.
OR
B. “There’s a disproportionate amount of racialized women in the PSW and care sector. (And) when you think about this from a systems perspective, it’s not a coincidence.” Why is this “not a coincidence”? Explain your answer.
For article 2: ” (Links to an external site.)Personal support workers come up short on permanent wage hikes in Ontario budget” (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
A. Yes or No? Do you think permanent wage hikes and benefits for PSWs should have been included in the latest Ontario budget? Explain your answer.
OR
B. “Ford has repeatedly acknowledged personal support workers in nursing homes are ‘overworked, underpaid and understaffed.'” Explain why you think this situation continues.
4. Using the writing process to brainstorm and then draft an outline of your essay (a sample outline is below). Here is a Word version downloadthat you can manipulate:
Reading Response Outline.jpg
4. Write a rough draft using the outline you created. Be sure to include regular in-text citations to refer back to the article. You may quote or paraphrase the article in your essay.
5. Proofread and Revise:
Please use complete sentences and proper paragraph structure throughout.
Edit your work for clarity and correct grammar.
Select your words carefully and write with college-level vocabulary.
Keep the tone moderately formal. While you don’t need a formal reference page, make sure to attribute ideas within the text using signal phrases such as, “According to …” and in-text citations.
Stick to the third person.
6. Submit:
Label and then submit both your reading response essay in a single Word document to the dropbox. APA is the default formatting used in this class. You can view a student exemplar here.