Coosen marrative matter article is “My Struggle to Access Lifesaving Mental Health Care,” Ashley R. Clayton (April 2019) ABSTRACT: A patient must overcome systemic hurdles to stay on the only effective treatment for her depression: ketamine.
Based on your discussion of your chosen “Narrative Matters” essay, this paper should examine how typical your essay’s example is and what policies might help to solve the central policy problems presented in your essay. Additionally, you should consider barriers that impede such improvements.
In order to accomplish this task, you need to find two peer-reviewed articles that provide evidence concerning the policy issue raised by your essay as well as policy solutions that address the issue. As you describe and evaluate these articles and the solutions mentioned, make sure to consider what gets in the way of the kinds of solutions you discuss. Also, make sure to connect back to your original article and the personal example in that article. Your essay should be 1100-1500 words long, double spaced, using 12-point font with page numbers and a title page. You should follow MLA formatting guidelines and provide a works cited page as well.
Your essay is due Friday, March 25th at 11:59 pm; submit your essay to Turnitin.com.
SC495: Grading Rubric for the Longer “Narrative Matters” Essay: NOTE: This rubric is NOT an essay outline; rather these are the components your essay needs. You need to choose how to organize your essay, with appropriate thesis, transitions and topic sentences.
Analysis and Evidence from Your “Narrative Matters” Essay (20 points)
Using your exam essay, present your narrative matters article, detailing the story told in it, the author’s role, and the problems raised concerning health, disease and healthcare currently. Don’t worry about plagiarizing yourself here–it’s okay to use the text of your first essay in this one. (Just make sure to take into consideration my evaluation of your take home essay.)
Discussion of Typicality (15 points)
Consideration in your essay of what specific circumstances make the narrative presented unique and what central components reflect a typical experience of others in our current context.
Policy Solutions (25 points)
Presentation here of some possible fixes to our health system that would help to solve the concerns presented in this essay. Make sure here to include some concrete examples of possible changes that could help here as well as barriers to their implementation.
Connections between Policy Solutions and your Original Article (10 points)
As you write, make sure you address how your policy solutions connect back to the original narrative in your essay. How would these solutions have helped, and what might have been challenging in implementing them?
New Sources Providing Possible Policy Solutions (10 points)
Two peer-reviewed articles
Relevance to your “Narrative Matters” essay
At least one article should address POLICY
Writing (20 points)
Word count
Punctuation, grammar, spelling
Proper sentence structure
Well-organized paper with clearly-defined paragraphs
Clear thesis statement and topic sentences
Correct MLA formatting
