Cassie Lagner- Researching Project 2

While researching I discovered important things about a white paper and my topic that is important. The topics white papers usually discuss is business and politics. They someone discuss professions in the medical field. The people who usually write them are people looking for a specific topic and comparing two things. For example comparing the kind of writing that is done by an English Professor verses the kind of writing a Dentist does. People who read white papers are either those who are “grading” or analyzing them. Another common audience are people who maybe want to learn more about a specific topic or the comparison of both the topics presented. The rhetorical purpose of white papers is to possibly persuade readers about a certain topic or even simply inform. Some companies use white papers as a way to persuade someone to buy a certain product or to do something and it can inform someone by giving them information about a topic they are curious in. White papers are definitely not the typical essay kind of format. It is common for white papers to have graphs, pictures, or even like cool fun designs. Sometimes they include subtitles above sections and other things to make it unique. White papers are typically around 3-6 pages long. This all depends on how much you need to get your point across.

The discipline I chose to write about is the different types of writing that consist under the job description of a Physician Assistant and an M.D. Students of that topic do not necessarily write medical charts in either medical school or PA school, instead they take tests and write about what they learned. The topics they write about vary depending on what they are learning at the time. Students write lab reports and that can be a genre of a typical Biology student on the track to become either a PA or M.D. Students can explore in any kind of research they feel best suites them. The professions I am writing about typically write patient charts or M.D usually write prescription slips fro medication. Research methods that are common in this field are researching new diseases or maybe researching a type of medication that is unfamiliar to the doctor or PA. For PA usually doctors will read their writing if its medical charts and for doctors usually a pharmacist will read their writing when finding medicine. Consequences of this field can be extremely bad. If a doctor messes up a chart this can either result in death of a patient, suing of a doctor, or maybe being fired. I enjoyed researching this because this is something I am interested in learning about.