Evaluating Sources and Argumentation Skills

The given task involves analyzing a student's portfolio, which includes essays on various topics such as the NHS, maternal and child nutrition, and holistic care. The student is required to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding by working through tasks, paraphrasing ideas effectively, and showing comprehension of the essay writing process. They must also research and support their ideas with evidence and examples, include an introduction and conclusion, use at least 4 sources, combine sources effectively, make their opinion clear, adhere to a word count, check for spelling and grammar mistakes, use appropriate academic style, and cite sources in Harvard Style. This assignment assesses the student's transferable employability skills, including critical thinking, analysis, and effective communication.

English for Academic Purposes 2 Resit
(EAPB3017)
Name:
Student Number:
Lecturer name:
This is your English for Academic Purposes 2 Resit Portfolio which you must submit on
Tuesday, 10th April 2018 by 2pm via the Student Portal. This should be completed throughout
the course and you must make sure you save your work regularly (e.g. on your computer, on
a USB stick, on email or on the Cloud drive).
Please refer to suggested word counts for each task included within in this portfolio.

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Week Table of Contents Page Learning
Outcome
Completed?
()
Portfolio Tasks
(These tasks should
be developed
throughout the term
but completed by
Tuesday 10 April
2018 by 2pm)
5 Organising your ideas
[suggested word count: varies per task] 4 LO 1 & 3
6 Making notes with confidence
(200 words) 6 LO 2
7 Developing your arguments
[suggested word count: varies per task] 8 LO 1, 2 & 3
8
Writing your argumentative essay
(900 words +/- 10%) 10 LO 1 & 3
9 Getting a First! 11 LO 1 & 3
Track your progress by ticking off each task as you complete it, in the final column.
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PORTFOLIO TASK
Organising your ideas: Are my sources reliable?
In the space below, create an outline for your essay by making notes about any information you
find from class or reading list sources and from the two sources you found. Use bullet points and
not full sentences. Include in-text citations where necessary. You should add to this throughout
the course. (150 – 200 words)
Arguments in Favour (YES) Arguments against (NO)
Point 1
______
It is the true statement because without proper
food and accommodation facilities one cannot
lead a healthy life. It is very important for one
to fulfil their basic amenities that they can lead
a healthy life. Heath is most important aspect of
individual life. Proper and sufficient food is
very important for each and every individual for
this world. The main and only reason behind
illness is lack of food and accommodation
facilities. Food, shelter, health is basic
requirement of the lives, it is very essential to
fulfil them so that one can lead a healthy and
happy life (Betancourt, 2016).
While on the other hand there are various
reason which can affect the health and well
being of the poor people rather than food and
accommodation. These reasons can be
heretical problems or any other kinds of
infection etc., food and accommodation can
be the reason but they are not the only reason,
because there are people who are very poor
but still they are quite healthy. Yes, food and
accommodation are first and foremost
requirement of the individual but there are
some more needs that are important to be
fulfilled (Thomas, 2016).
Point 2
_____
Proper measure should be initiated in order to
change the pattern of service provided by the
medical and health care units. The main motive
of such organisations is used to gain the profits
and benefits they lay very minimum
concentration upon the health and well being of
there patients (Sevelsted, 2015).
There are number of health are and medical
units, whose prime motive is improving
health of there patients with no hidden motive
(Guest,2017).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Betancourt, J. R.,2016. Defining cultural competence: a practical framework for addressing racial/ethnic
disparities in health and health care. Public health reports.
Guest, J. F., 2017. Health economic burden that different wound types impose on the UK's National Health
Service. International wound journal.14(2). pp.322-330.
Sevelsted, A., 2015. Cesarean section and chronic immune disorders. Pediatrics. 135(1). pp.e92-e98.
Thomas, M. N., 2016. Effects of malnutrition on complication rates, length of hospital stay, and revenue in
elective surgical patients in the G-DRG-system. Nutrition. 32(2). pp.249-254.
PORTFOLIO TASK
Making notes with confidence – WEEK 6
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This is the space for you to upload the photo of your notes from the listening activity. The video
will be made available for you to watch at home as many times as you like. You will be able to
access the video directly from the link which you can find on the GSM website (EAP 2 resit module)
under week 6.
Please upload a photo of your notes in the space below:
Write a summary about what you have just listened to. (no more than 100 words)
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Health care is very wide ad huge concept and there are number of people who are involved in its working
still they are insufficient in providing basic health and facilities to the poor and malnourished people,
because of the rigid concept that is associated with the health and medical organisations. It is important for
the people to come together and make an effort for implementing the actual meaning or health and medical
care organisation. There are lot of poor and unhealthy people who need proper assessment but they are
enable to receive because of the norms and policies that are constructed by the medical organisations are
mainly for their profit making and not for the well-being of the patients.
Write a response to the opinions given. (no more than 100 words)
As per the given opinion it is very important that people should come together and take a step forward for
modifying the systems and patterns followed by the health care institutions, so that it can create positive
impact upon the health and wellbeing of the people who needed it. It includes various kinds of measures that
one can take in order to play an effective role in the recreating and reclaiming the vast utilized health care
resources. It also creates focus upon the fact that doctor's duty not end with writing prescription, it should be
part of their job to analyse whether these prescriptions are being followed by the patient or they are facing
any kind of problem in doing so.
PORTFOLIO TASK
Developing your arguments: Paraphrasing/Summarising
Choose one aspect (e.g. Point 1 or 2) and summarise and/or paraphrase the main points you noted
in the outline on page 2. Use complete sentences and include in-text citations where necessary.
(150 – 200 words)
Arguments in favour (YES):
The real issue behind the diseases and illness is no food and improper accommodation problem:
It is the true statement because without proper food and accommodation facilities one cannot lead a healthy
life. It is very important for one to fulfil their basic amenities that they can lead a healthy life. Heath is most
important aspect of individual life (Rinaldi, 2018). Proper and sufficient food is very important for each and
every individual for this world. The main and only reason behind illness is lack of food and accommodation
facilities. Food, shelter, health is basic requirement of the lives, it is very essential to fulfil them so that one
can lead a healthy and happy life (Mossialos, 2015).
Arguments against (NO):
While on the other hand there are various reason which can affect the health and wellbeing of the poor
people rather than food and accommodation. These reasons can be heretical problems or any other kinds of
infection etc., food and accommodation can be the reason but they are not the only reason, because there are
people who are very poor but still they are quite healthy. Yes, food and accommodation are first and
foremost requirement of the individual but there are some more needs that are important to be fulfilled
(Hall,2018).
REFERENCES
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Books and Journals
Hall, M. A., 2018. Health care law and ethics. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
Mossialos, E., 2015. From “retailers” to health care providers: transforming the role of community
pharmacists in chronic disease management. Health Policy. 119(5). pp.628-639.
Rinaldi, J. C., 2018. Maternal protein malnutrition: effects on prostate development and adult
disease. Journal of developmental origins of health and disease. p.1.
PORTFOLIO TASK
Developing your arguments: Combining sources
Using the summaries, you wrote in the previous task, combine them below to create the first body
paragraph of your essay. Use the guide below to help you and highlight each part with the same
colour. (250 – 300 words)
Body paragraph 1
Say why this is a key issue (e.g. Economic/Social)
(this is your topic sentence)
What is the counter-argument of this issue?
(this is the opinion you do not agree with)
What is the main argument of this issue?
(this is your opinion)
 Why is your argument stronger than the counter-argument?
 What evidence/examples do you have to support this?
What can you conclude from this? What are the implications?
You should use at least 2 sources in this paragraph.
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There are number of organisation who work as the medical units but still there is no as such improvement in
the medical facilities which are being provided to the people and especially poor people (Guest, 2017). The
main reason behind this is that these units see it as a billion-dollar industry. Lots of funds are transferred to
these units per year, but it's not used for the welfare of the patients.
Everything in this world has some benefits and limitations, there are various medical units who work so
effectively and efficiently to provide premium services to their patients. As per the records there are various
numbers of doctors who treat patients as there family members and monitor and assess the health of there
patients on regular basis.
The main issue of this argument is that health and medical units are the present since last so many decades but
there working is not effective in order to provide benefits to the patients who highly needs their assessment
(Rinaldi, 2018). Reinventing rigid ad old aspects and concepts of health care is very important to reclaim the
resources which are provided by such units for the betterment of the poor people. Food and basic amenities are
the essential part of the individual lives it is important to provide proper food and nutrition to each person of
this society
It can be concluded that, now it comes the time when people come out from their own world and contribute in
the working of the society, because each and every individual is part of this society, so it’s their responsibility
to contribute in its enhancements.
REFERENCES
Rinaldi, J. C., 2018. Maternal protein malnutrition: effects on prostate development and adult disease. Journal
of developmental origins of health and disease. p.1.
Guest, J. F., 2017. Health economic burden that different wound types impose on the UK's National Health
Service. International wound journal.14(2). pp.322-330.
PORTFOLIO TASK
Writing your argumentative essay
Using the same process as you did for the first body paragraph, complete your essay below.
(900 words: +/- 10%)
'Should the government increase funding for the NHS?'
INTRODUCTION
The question for this essay is all about funding enhancement for NHS just because of lack of facilities
providing over there (Comas-Herrera, Wittenberg and Pickard, 2018). This supposed to be done in an
appropriate manner just because number of deaths from past few years tend to rises more and more. A major
focus is based on determining of various paths which enable in arrange money or funding for National Health
System, UK in order to improve working and operations so that number of deaths could be minimise and
reduce. This thing is appropriate as from compared with other health care institute NHS failed many times at
many levels which need to improve in a define frame. For this abbreviation, various books, journals, articles
lead to get underpin so that effective and better understanding about topic get done as well as better results lead
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to derive in order to facilitate things proper.
Main Body
First issue
One of a major issue which taking place at NHS is that standard services and high quality standard
consideration getting missed due to deficit. Thus, government start framing budget for the National Health
Services so that better and effective working could be done in define resources. But there is a need to increase
funding by Government so that better and supportive standard could be met (Fisher and et. al., 2017). Thus
such deficit is a major issue or problem for a company which required to meet up properly in order to deliver
quality standard services for improving health related issues and problems.
Thus with a change course of time, demand for health care services tend to rises due to several reasons
which are more people are living longer as well as population also tend to rise with a course of time. Moreover,
with changing course of time new advancement related technologies are taking place which rises budget or
spending as well. Hence, as per a survey, number of individuals from 2005 to 2016, around 4% increment
determine in admission of hospitals (Does the NHS need more money? 2018). This stated that more and more
individuals getting treatment as compared with previous year.
The mismatch between demand of services and funding creating problem which need to assess by
government properly and evaluate appropriate paths as well to deal with them. Thus, government required to
increase funding for National Health Services where they could have met up with per person in real terms as
well as their health supposed to get improvise. NHS is not able to meet with current status of quality with
define budget reforms which further required to improve properly. If the budget gets improve or more funding
become possible, then NHS will lead to again reach to its quality level. Otherwise its negative implications
should be assessing in form of deaths and harmful diseases but nothing else.
Second issue
Another issue which associated with NHS working and increase of funding should be short of doctors
(Grant and et. al., 2018). National Health Services are the only concern which solely cover all kind of health
services provider in United Kingdom but due to lack of funding or receive of money. As many health institutes
which coming under NHS do not have sufficient money which create problem for doctors to provide their
services as they are not getting appropriate wages as per the consideration. This argument gets understand on
the basis of graphs and charts of comparison of Doctors between England and other countries of the world.
This issue or problem required to minimise properly by increase of funding as it enable them to provide salary
on time as well as provide them other monetary incentives as well.
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Illustration 1: 13 reasons for (and some against) spending more on the NHS, 2018
(Sources: 13
reasons for (and some against) spending more on the NHS, 2018)
On the basis of this define graph, it gets interpret that Australia have highest number of doctors which
contribute their best in delivering high standard services to each and every user properly so that better and
efficient gain supposed to be carried down. Although, from past few years, there is an active cut down lead to
evaluated in number of doctors present at UK which signify that there is a requirement of appropriate monetary
and funding policy. Such factor need to underpin by government properly so that they supposed to do things
properly as well as lead to minimise issues (Hiam and et. al., 2017). Major negative implications which
supposed to estimate by this consideration as many individuals will not get recover properly as well as proper
treatment for define cause also become impossible. Hence, government required to enhance their funding
which further assist them to manage such practices. Although with sufficient funding chances of deriving better
and appropriate doctor services will get continue. Hence, such aspect enables them to gain better and
supportive results and outcome for future consideration.
CONCLUSION
It gets concluded from the provided essay that funding by government is a whole and sole factor which
enable in order to deal with various issues. There are various issues and problems get identify which need to
minimise properly so that better and effective delivery of services become possible. Without sufficient money,
business not become able to deliver quality standard services which impacted their goodwill and made negative
influence between various individuals. On the other hand, fund is required to meet daily needs of patients at
health care which further support to recover them properly as well as better gain could be derive.
Reference List:
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Comas-Herrera, A., Wittenberg, R. and Pickard, L., 2018. Long-term care for older people in the United
Kingdom: structure and challenges. In Long-term care: matching resources and needs (pp. 31-48).
Routledge.
Fisher, R. F. and et. al., 2017. GP views on strategies to cope with increasing workload: a qualitative interview
study. Br J Gen Pract, pp. bjgpfeb-2017.
Grant, A. and et. al., 2018. Availability of breastfeeding peer support in the United Kingdom: A cross‐sectional
study. Maternal & child nutrition. 14(1).
Hiam, L. and et. al., 2017. What caused the spike in mortality in England and Wales in January 2015?. Journal
of the Royal Society of Medicine. 110(4). pp.131-137.
Wilson, N., 2017. Holistic care should be coming your way. British dental journal. 223(8). p.568.
Online
Does the NHS need more money? 2018. [Online]. Available through
:<https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/does-nhs-need-more-money>.
13 reasons for (and some against) spending more on the NHS. 2018. [Online]. Available through
:<https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/13-reasons-and-some-counter-arguments-to-spend-
more-on-the-nhs>
PORTFOLIO EVIDENCE
Week 7: Getting a First!
Tick () the appropriate column to check that your essay has included the necessary parts to help
it get as high a grade as possible!
Good evidence Some
evidence
Insufficient
evidence
Knowledge and
understanding
A. Have you worked through the tasks in this
portfolio? ✔
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A. Have you paraphrased/summarized ideas
effectively? ✔
B. Do your portfolio tasks show
understanding of the essay writing
process?
✔
C. Have you researched and supported your
ideas with evidence and examples? ✔
Cognitive/Intellectual
Skills
D. Does your essay include an introduction
and conclusion? ✔
E. Do your body paragraphs contain a
counter-argument, argument & evidence/
examples, using appropriate linking words?
✔
F. Have you used at least 4 sources (they can
be from class or reading list) & combined
your sources effectively?
✔
G. Have you made your opinion clear? ✔
Graduate: Transferable
Employability &
Practical Skills
H. Are you within the word count? ✔
I. Have you checked for spelling, grammar
and punctuation mistakes? ✔
J. Have you used appropriate academic style
and appropriate vocabulary? ✔
K. Have you included in-text citations and a
reference list that follow Harvard Style? ✔
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