{"id":16351,"date":"2023-04-21T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-3-assignment-letter-to-a-legislator-about-a-current-health-problem-quality-start-assignment\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T17:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T17:55:40","slug":"week-3-assignment-letter-to-a-legislator-about-a-current-health-problem-quality-start-assignment","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-3-assignment-letter-to-a-legislator-about-a-current-health-problem-quality-start-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 Assignment: Letter to a Legislator about a Current Health Problem\/Quality Start Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is vital to understand how to communicate your viewpoint about a current issue. In this assignment, you will develop a letter to your legislator about a current health problem. Once you have completed this assignment, save the letter to use as a template for future health issues which need to be presented to your legislator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 1: Select a current health problem that is being debated at the national and\/or state level (e.g., the proliferation of \u201cpill mills\u201d and pain clinics), and state why it is of interest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 2: Identify a legislator (state or federal) and state why that person is the appropriate one to contact.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Step 3: Draft a one-page letter to the legislator including the proper salutation and the components below:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Introduce yourself and your reason for writing.<\/div>\n<div>State concisely what you understand to be the current socioeconomic, political, and ethical issues surrounding the problem.<\/div>\n<div>Discuss the implications of the problem for nursing or nursing practice.<\/div>\n<div>Make a clear request for action. Request a response.<\/div>\n<div>You will not need a title page or a reference page for this assignment, just a 1-page letter \u2013 do not exceed 1 page.<\/div>\n<div>Use the following YouTube for basic formal letter formatting:<\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7xUTguLaaXI Links to an external site.<\/div>\n<div>See the rubric below for grading details. Links to an external site.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When you submit this assignment, your paper will automatically run through a plagiarism checker build into Canvas called Unicheck. This will formulate a similarity report and will give you a percentage. If you percentage is greater than 30%, please review the report and see where you are flagged for similarity. You will need to re-do the paper to reduce the percentage to less than 30% before the paper will be accepted for grading. Late penalties may apply.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is vital to understand how to communicate your viewpoint about a current issue. In this assignment, you will develop a letter to your legislator about a current health problem. Once you have completed this assignment, save the letter to use as a template for future health issues which need to be presented to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[190],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}