‘What is your name?’ she asks, staring at me. ‘Jennifer Ross.’ ‘Jennifer Ross, Sister. Well, Nurse Ross, you are dressed in the uniform of a nurse from the Leeds General Infirmary. Such a uniform is not worn with a cardigan. Take it off at once.’ ‘Yes Sister.’ I can feel my face turn red. A trainee nurse in the 1950s had a lot to bear. In Jennifer Craig’s enchanting memoir, we meet these warm-hearted yet naïve young girls as they get to grips with strict discipline, long hours, and bodily fluids. But we also see the camaraderie that develops in evening study sessions, sneaked trips to the cinema and mischievous escapades with the young trainee doctors. The harsh conditions prove too much for some girls, but the opportunity to help her patients in their time of need is too much of a pull for Jenny. As she commits to her vocation and knuckles down to her exams, she is determined that when she reaches the heights of Ward Sister herself she will not become the frightening matron that struck fear into her student heart/ Rich in period detail, and told with a good dose of Yorkshire humor, Yes Sister, No Sister is a life-affirming true story of a life long past.

Yes Sister, No Sister: My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire

Biographies & Memoirs

Craig, Jennifer

Community & Culture

Ebury Press

Case studies and pedagogical strategies to help science and engineering students improve their writing and speaking skills while developing professional identities.
To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that “engineers who don't write well end up working for engineers who do write well,” requiring all students to take “communications-intensive” classes in which they learn from MIT faculty and writing instructors how to express their ideas in writing and in presentations. Students are challenged not only to think like professional scientists and engineers but also to communicate like them.This book offers in-depth case studies and pedagogical strategies from a range of science and engineering communication-intensive classes at MIT. It traces the progress of seventeen students from diverse backgrounds in seven classes that span five departments. Undergraduates in biology attempt to turn scientific findings into a research article; graduate students learn to define their research for scientific grant writing; undergraduates in biomedical engineering learn to use data as evidence; and students in aeronautic and astronautic engineering learn to communicate collaboratively. Each case study is introduced by a description of its theoretical and curricular context and an outline of the objectives for the students' activities. The studies describe the on-the-ground realities of working with faculty, staff, and students to achieve communication and course goals, offering lessons that can be easily applied to a wide variety of settings and institutions.

Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT (Mit Press)

Literature & Fiction

Lerner, Neal

Poe, Mya

Short Stories & Anthologies

The MIT Press

To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem                 irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover                 that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world                 problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into                 practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for                 engineers who do write well," requiring all students to take                 "communications-intensive" classes in which they learn from MIT faculty                 and writing instructors how to express their ideas in writing and in presentations.                 Students are challenged not only to think like professional scientists and engineers                 but also to communicate like them.This book offers in-depth case studies and                 pedagogical strategies from a range of science and engineering                 communication-intensive classes at MIT. It traces the progress of seventeen students                 from diverse backgrounds in seven classes that span five departments. Undergraduates                 in biology attempt to turn scientific findings into a research article; graduate                 students learn to define their research for scientific grant writing; undergraduates                 in biomedical engineering learn to use data as evidence; and students in aeronautic                 and astronautic engineering learn to communicate collaboratively. Each case study is                 introduced by a description of its theoretical and curricular context and an outline                 of the objectives for the students' activities. The studies describe the                 on-the-ground realities of working with faculty, staff, and students to achieve                 communication and course goals, offering lessons that can be easily applied to a                 wide variety of settings and institutions.

Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

After losing her job and learning she might also lose her house because of a bad investment, Jess, a fiercely independent and hilariously wry BC grandma, resorts to growing pot in her basement to make ends meet. She then has to juggle her public life as a grandmother and member of the town’s senior women's group—The Company of Crones—with her secret life as a pot grower. The unusual characters she meets along the way include Swan, the enigmatic young woman who introduces her to the grower's world, and Marcus, the socially awkward "gardener" who shows her the tricks of the trade. Both of her new young friends are more than they appear, and Jess' adventures in pot growing break down barriers in both her old and new circles. The delightful outcome of an almost legitimate business leaves Jess and her associates flushed with success.

Gone to Pot

Humor & Satire

Second Story Press

Based on the authors own experiences, Yes Sister, No Sister is the fascinating story of one young nurse who enters training in 1952 and eventually progresses to become a ward sister. At that time nursing was one of the few career paths open to young women, and Yes Sister, No Sister paints a fascinating picture of the lives of student nurses in Leeds. Naive and idealistic, girls entering nurse training were immediately immersed in an atmosphere of strict discipline: stern sisters, starched uniforms and early curfews. The work and training was hard and the hours long and tiring, and some did drop out. For those that remained, however, there were compensations: the satisfaction of providing good care, and the support and camaraderie of the other student nurses. A healthy dose of traditional Yorkshire humour helped them to cope with the rigours of hospital life, and the book is peppered with comic episodes.

Yes Sister, No Sister: A Leeds Nurse in the 1950s

Professionals & Academics

Breedon Books Publishing Co Lt

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