{"id":2180,"date":"2017-10-23T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T19:51:51","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-texts-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-texts-of-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>Texts of Life and Death<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, a<em>\u00a0<\/em>collection of articles entitled\u00a0<em>Texts of Life and Death\u00a0<\/em>was published. This\u00a0anthology deals with the need for writing in\u00a0social and health\u00a0services.\u00a0New requirements for documenting and reporting appear every day, but their impact on\u00a0the main work is ignored.\u00a0For example,\u00a0Finnish daycare workers, who have jobs more like preschool or kindergarten teachers elsewhere,\u00a0 spend several hours every week writing notes and updating records, further reducing the time spent actually caring for children.<\/p>\n<p>The co-editor of the book,\u00a0<em>Ulla Tiilil\u00e4<\/em>, has often drawn<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.net\/yk\/sana\/en.index.php?word_id=7bf9bed2388326bd492a4559115318fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> attention<\/a> to the fact that such<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>writing is not really seen as additional work.\u00a0Changes are made in the name of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>effective use of resources, but those imposing the changes often<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>do not notice\u00a0that they bring additional layers of review and consume time and money on\u00a0needless<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Many articles in the collection offer concrete examples of the impact of these writing tasks, yet<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>how little attention is given to them in discussion and research.\u00a0<em>Texts of Life and Death<\/em>\u00a0makes the work of workplace writing<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>visible in a new way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, a\u00a0collection of articles entitled\u00a0Texts of Life and Death\u00a0was published. This\u00a0anthology deals with the need for writing in\u00a0social and health\u00a0services.\u00a0New requirements for documenting and reporting appear every day, but their impact on\u00a0the main work is ignored.\u00a0For example,\u00a0Finnish daycare workers, who have jobs more like preschool or kindergarten teachers elsewhere,\u00a0 spend several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}