Overview
Thesis statement to use: In The Learning Curve, Atul Gawande effectively communicates the ethical tension between patient safety and medical training. He does this through honesty, personal vulnerability, and thoughtful reflection. His readiness to acknowledge mistakes and discuss their consequences makes the ethical stakes feel urgent instead of abstract. By basing his argument on real experiences, he illustrates why this dilemma is both morally challenging and vital to medical education.
Based on The Learning Curve by Atul Gawande (PAGES WILL BE ATTACHED): From The Social Medicine Reader, Vol I: Patients, Doctors and Illness, ed. Nancy M.P. King et al. Second Edition. Duke University Press, 2005.
Note:
(a) Your thesis should consider the extent to which the writer is successful, and why (and/or why not).
(b) A2 will be a double-spaced 4-5 page thesis-driven essay.
Is the writer successful in conveying the significance and complexity of this issue?
Audience: the audience for this paper will be your peers, i.e. Upper-division students at a top-level University who have read the pieces.
NO AI - TEACHER WILL CHECK ON TURN IT IN Teacher notes to work on:
-- a tendency towards undev paras
-- mature topic sentences esp. for a professional audi
-- more careful – and formal -- language in general
-- transitions