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Writing Workbook February, 2004 Writing Assignment, due March 6 Assignment for computer lab 1, February 7 Assignment for computer lab II, February 8 Assignment for computer lab III, February 21 Assignment for computer lab IV, March 6 Take-home examination, due March 29 (or sooner if you want your mark more quickly!) Some recommended short text on grammar: Northey, M (1983) Making Sense: a student’s guide to writing and style, Oxford: University Press: Toronto Canada Strunk, W Jr and White, EB (1979) The Elements of Style. 3rd ed. MacMillan, New York Schertzer, M (1986) The Elements of Grammar. Longman, New York. ** Schwaqger, E. Medical Usage and Abusage. (1990) Oryx Press **recommended by instructor for grammar section! These books are available through Amazon at decent prices!Assignment 1: due March 6 Your employee has handed you this draft of a background piece to be placed in your upcoming regulatory submission. Can you clean it up? Make your revisions with your tracking tool on in Word so that I can see your changes. A novel inflatable mattress to be used for Pressure Ulcer Prevention With apologies to Hilton Marc Kaplan Anne-Caroline Dupont Salter Alfred Mann Institute, University of Southern California November 2003 Pressure ulcers: scarey and debilitating pathology resulting from very large pressure and shear in the soft tissues of immobilized patients129. There are lots of different words that can be used to describe this really frightening thing (decubitus ulcers, pressure sores, bed sores, ischemic sores, etc.), and a multitude of therapies can be pointed to. The fact that there are so many divergent words is ironically a testament to the relatively poor success of the treatments. There are so many patients that get poor results. There are many reasons for this but let us look at the background. Etiology The pathogenesis of pressure ulcers (PUs) derives from a host of compounding etiological factors129: Pres