The paper must be a “Comparison of published disaster triage schemes and their value in an MCI”. (What is the overriding reason to have a triage scheme? What are the good points and bad points of each? Are there scenarios in which one is better than another?
paper requirements:
– Paper length should be approximately 2500-3000 words, but substance is more important than volume.
– Use recent articles (5-10 years depending on the subject) from peer-reviewed journals as well as textbooks. Texts are often out of date soon after published.
– Expect to use no fewer than 10 references.(see attached writing outlines theme).
– The emphasis is on facts and factual information (thus the need to cite references).
– Avoid inserting your opinion. Unless you are a published author or field expert, your opinions have no place in a scholarly paper If you are a field expert, you may add your thoughts to the paper, but only if you can support those thoughts with current literature.
– Avoid gross exaggeration words like “exponential” and “every day.”
– Avoid personal pronouns like me, I, you etc. Stay in the third person. If you find yourself using those personal pronouns, you are straying outside the bounds of scholarly work.
-Last step:Add the following to this outline when you are writing your first complete draft:
- introductory comments that lead into your thesis
- transitions which help tie paragraphs to each other
- transitions within paragraphs to help organize your evidence * a concluding paragraph
