Assignment: Experience of Illness HLT 302
Human Experience of Illness
Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych is a good example. Write a 750-1,000 word paper analyzing Ivan Illych’s story in terms of the “healing environment” concepts found in chapters 7-9 of Called to Care: A Christian Worldview for Nursing. In the paper, make sure to address the phenomenology of illness and disease (i.e., the personal “what it’s like” of illness and disease).
Finally, provide a personal analysis of your own experience with illness and disease, as well as how various factors influenced that experience.
Prepare this assignment in accordance with the APA guidelines found in the Student Success Center’s APA Style Guide. There is no need for an abstract.
A rubric is used for this assignment. Please review the rubric before beginning the assignment to become acquainted with the requirements for successful completion.
This assignment must be submitted to Turnitin. Please follow the steps outlined in the Student Success Center.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so
indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow you
r essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.