¶ … sufficient evidence for its hypothesis or claim?
The paper is clear int hat it provides us with Introduction, body, and conclusion. The theme is simple too: health care providers (the paper tells us) need to respect, acknowledge, and understand the challenges that the 3 religions -- Judaism, Islam, and Shintoism -- can provide to th health care system. The health system needs to know how to satisfy adherents of these religions in order to optimize their medical care.
The paper then goes through a brief description of each religion (in Judaism's case, of Orthodox Jews) particularly as touches on their medical care and cursorily describes how medical practitioners can meet these needs. There are many more points that can be mentioned, particularly in the case of Orthodox Judaism where the profession may be riddled with many more challenges, such as kosher (and food regulation exist with Islam too). In the case of both religions, too, are gender laws (such as touching opposite sex, shaking hands of opposite sex etc.). The essay, however, may be too limited to go into further details.
More so, internal differences of the religions are far more complex than briefly touched upon in this short essay. Orthodox Judaism, for instance, is far more complex than delineated here with Hasidim, Modern orthodox, various shades and the large spectrum each keeping o nuanced prescriptions that differ form one another. This, too, however is beyond the scope of the essay, and the author attempted to limit herself to generic description.
On the whole, given the broadness of the topic, the author did well in her treatment of the topic - sufficiently -- although not adequately - explaining her claim. Her theme, however, may have been too ambiguous for such a limited format.
b) Does the flow of the paper and sentence structure make sense?
There were incomplete sentences such as this in the Introduction:
The customs of praying, meditation, and spiritual guidance may differ from health care providers and must be taken into consideration when providing care for patients with different religious philosophies. Since healing hospital's principles are based on healing through compassionate care and love supporting the Catholic ideology.
What was good though was that the paper launched right away into its theme in its opening paragraph stating, too, reason for the importance of this subject.
On the whole, in fact, the flow was clear and made sense. There was an Introduction that launched directly into the purpose of the essay. The body elaborated. The conclusion summarized. Each of these largely kept to their task and were clear in their duty. The conclusion, however, veered off in one aspect in that it introduced new data into it -- the data about the importance of religion to health. I thought that the sentence should have belonged to the Introduction where the author may have inserted it pointing to why she thinks it important that practitioner pay heed to religion. The data, to, was introduced without any explanatory rqationale as to its importance. The author would have done better by introducing an xplanaotry sense as instantiated before.
Should it be organized in a different manner?
The organization was fine. A sentence may have been included in the Introduction where the author would have stated that she was going to briefly summarize each religion, state how specific practices may challenge healthcare and how health care practitioners could understand and accommodate these religious challenges. She may also have inserted that the treatment of the religions is far more complex than delineated here but brevity of essay compelled a simplified approach.
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