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Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 22.0. Statistical tests performed are identified in the results section. Power was calculated for the main effect of change in self‐efficacy in the full‐participant group using an effect size of .5 and alpha of .05. For this study a sample size of 63 would yield a power of greater than 98%.
The demographic characteristics of the sample are presented in Table 2 for the total sample and by study group. One‐way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) failed to identify any statistically significant demographic differences based on study participation level other than the experimental‐only group was significantly younger ( p = .042). Table 3 describes the sample by mean grades, SESAW, APA and grammar score and STAI scores at all three time points. No statistically significant differences were noted between the three study groups, using t tests or ANOVA, except in final course percentage grade where the time‐control only group achieved the lowest final grades.
Demographic characteristics of the sample by participation group
Sample and size | All participants = 134 | Time control only = 36 | Experimental only = 30 | Full participant = 67 |
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(%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | |
Course section | ||||
Online term 1 | 27 (20.3%) | – | 27 (90%) | – |
Online term 2 | 35 (26.3%) | 10 (27.8%) | – | 25 (37.3%) |
Classroom term 2 | 71 (53.4%) | 26 (72.2%) | 3 (10%) | 42 (62.7%) |
Age | ||||
18–24 | 53 (39.6%) | 17 (44.7%) | 15 (50%) | 21 (31.3%) |
25–29 | 38 (28.4%) | 10 (26.3%) | 12 (40%) | 16 (23.9%) |
30–34 | 20 (14.9%) | 5 (13.2%) | 2 (6.7%) | 13 (19.4%) |
35–39 | 10 (7.5%) | 1 (2.6%) | 0 | 9 (13.4%) |
40–44 | 8 (6.0%) | 4 (10.5%) | 0 | 4 (6.0%) |
45–49 | 2 (1.5%) | 1 (2.6%) | 0 | 1 (1.5%) |
50+ | 3 (2.2%) | 0 | 1 (3.3%) | 2 (3.0%) |
Gender | ||||
Female | 119 (88.8%) | 32 (84.2%) | 26 (86.7%) | 61 (91.0%) |
Male | 15 (11.2%) | 5 (13.2%) | 4 (13.3%) | 6 (9.0%) |
ESL | ||||
Yes | 32 (23.9%) | 7 (18.9%) | 8 (26.7%) | 17 (25.4%) |
No | 102 (76.1%) | 30 (81.1%) | 21 (70%) | 50 (74.6%) |
Education | ||||
High school grad | 16 (11.9%) | 7 (18.9%) | 2 (6.7%) | 7 (10.4%) |
Some college/university | 74 (55.2%) | 19 (51.3%) | 20 (66.7%) | 35 (52.2%) |
Completed diploma or degree | 44 (32.8%) | 11 (29.8%) | 8 (26.7%) | 25 (37.3%) |
Writing history | ||||
Never written a paper | 22 (18.6%) | 7 (20.6%) | 3 (12.0%) | 12 (20.3%) |
Greater than 5 years ago | 20 (16.9%) | 5 (14.7%) | 4 (16.0%) | 11 (18.6%) |
Less than 5 years ago | 69 (58.5%) | 19 (55.9%) | 18 (72.0%) | 32 (54.2%) |
Write formally | 1 (0.8%) | 1 (2.9%) | 0 | 0 |
Previous writing course credit | 6 (5.1%) | 2 (5.9%) | 0 | 4 (6.8%) |
Paper grade %(range) | 20.8%–100% | 20.8%–100% | 44.5%–94.3% | 31%–100% |
Final grade %(range) | 17.3%–98.3% | 17.3%–98.2% | 63.0%–95.0% | 45.8%–98.3% |
Grades, SESAW, APA and grammar and STAI scores by participation group at all time points
Full participants = 66 M(SD) | Experiment only = 30 M(SD) | Time control only = 36 M(SD) | |||
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Final % | 77.33 (11.50) | 79.79 (9.56) | 69.63 (16.24) | 6.31 | <0.001 |
Paper % | 71.36 (16.31) | 73.44 (14.30) | 63.88 (22.76) | 2.80 | 0.06 |
SESAW T1 | 26.60 (7.48) | – | 29.03 (3.78) | 1.848 | 0.07 |
SESAW T2 | 28.57 (3.67) | 27.07 (8.46) | 28.73 (3.75) | 1.08 | .34 |
SESAW T3 | 30.76 (3.60) | 29.77 (3.96) | – | 1.218 | .23 |
APA/G T1 | 9.98 (3.94) | – | 10.37 (3.43) | .456 | .65 |
APA/G T2 | 11.43 (3.29) | 10.77 (3.17) | 11.11 (3.86) | .363 | .70 |
APA/G T3 | 14.80 (2.57) | 14.33 (3.53) | – | .735 | .46 |
State Anx T1 | 41.93 (9.96) | – | 42.76 (13.11) | .132 | .72 |
State Anx T2 | 41.36 (9.77) | 41.86 (8.90) | 42.81 (10.61) | .260 | .77 |
State Anx T3 | 41.59 (10.61) | 41.17 (10.45) | – | .033 | .86 |
Trait Anx T1 | 39.56 (9.84) | – | 38.59 (10.21) | .219 | .64 |
Trait Anx T2 | 40.78 (8.94) | 40.17 (8.35) | 39.84 (8.97) | .147 | .86 |
Trait Anx T3 | 40.28 (10.20) | 40.55 (9.19) | – | .015 | .90 |
Table 4 presents the results of the time effect on the key study variables using repeated measures ANOVA or dependent t tests. In the full participant group, as expected, SESAW scores were statistically non‐significant in the control period but significantly improved from pre‐ to post course ( p < 0.001). SESAW scores did not achieve statistical significance in either the control‐only participants or the experiment‐only participants during the study period. There was no change in either state or trait anxiety at any time period in any of the three groups. APA and grammar knowledge improved significantly and were different at all three time periods in full participants ( p < 0.001) and also improved in the time control‐only group ( p = 0.03) and the experimental‐only group ( p < 0.001).
Change in SESAW, APA and grammar knowledge and STAI scores across three time points by participation group
T1 M(SD) | T2 M(SD) | T3 M(SD) | |||
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Control‐only = 36 | |||||
SESAW | 29.16 (3.81) | 28.71 (3.70) | – | = 0.802 | ns |
APA/G | 10.37 (3.43) | 11.83 (3.32) | – | = −2.22 | 0.03 |
State anxiety | 42.76 (13.11) | 42.81 (10.61) | – | = −0.028 | ns |
Trait anxiety | 38.59 (10.21) | 39.84 (8.97) | – | = −1.01 | ns |
Experiment‐only = 30 | |||||
SESAW | – | 27.07 (8.46) | 29.77 (3.96) | = −1.93 | 0.06 |
APA/G | – | 10.77 (3.16) | 14.54 (3.66) | = −4.35 | <0.001 |
State anxiety | – | 41.86 (10.41) | 41.86 (10.41) | = 0.00 | ns |
Trait anxiety | – | 40.21 (8.49) | 40.55 (9.19) | = −0.396 | ns |
Full‐participant = 66 | |||||
SESAW = 63 | 28.29 (3.32) | 28.49 (3.61) | 30.81 (3.54) | = 16.20 | <0.001 |
APA/G = 60 | 10.02 | 11.63 | 14.85 | = 32.81 | <0.001 |
State anxiety = 66 | 41.93 (9.96) | 41.36 (9.77) | 41.59 (10.61) | = 0.120 | ns |
Trait anxiety = 66 | 39.56 (9.84) | 40.78 (8.94) | 40.28 (10.20) | = 0.506 | ns |
Pearson's r calculated negative correlations, as expected, between SESAW and both state and trait anxiety with the exception of state anxiety at T3. Using Pearson's r , correlations with SESAW at T1 were r = −.33 ( p < .001) for state anxiety and r = −.24 ( p < 0.05) for trait anxiety. At T2, SESAW negatively correlated with state anxiety, r = −.48 ( p < .001) and trait anxiety, r = −.53 ( p < 0.001) and at T3 these negative relationships were maintained with state, r = −.17 (n.s.) and trait, r = −.23 ( p < 0.05).
As expected, using Pearson's r, both paper and final percentage grades were uncorrelated with SESAW measures more remote from their writing performance at T1 (paper percent r = −0.004, p = n.s.; final grade percent r = 0.04, p = n.s.) and T2 (paper percent r = 0.04, p = n.s.; final grade percent r = 0.07, p = n.s.) but achieved a statistically significant correlation at the SESAW measure most proximal to their performance at T3 (paper percent r = .24, p < 0.05; final grade percent r = .25, p < 0.05).
The study hypothesis predicted no differences between the online and classroom experience in terms of grades, APA and grammar test scores and STAI and this hypothesis was observed in the data with the notable exception of final course grade. Using independent t tests, final percentage grade differences between the first term online section (mean = 80.66, SD = 9.33), the second term online section (mean = 72.84, SD 13.09) and the second term classroom section (mean = 75.49, SD 13.73) grades were non‐significant by ANOVA, F (2,129) = 2.90, p = 0.058, but post hoc tests identified a significant difference between the two online groups ( p = 0.048). The SESAW was expected to be higher in the second term section of online students because students were guided to choose this section based on their self‐assessed confidence in writing. As expected, independent t tests showed SESAW at T1 to differ between the second term classroom (mean = 27.95, SD 3.44) and online sections (mean = 29.52, SD 3.26), t (96) = −2.16, p = 0.033.
Students entering the programme with only high school entry credits fared the worst in terms of their paper and final percentage grades but did not correspondingly differ on SESAW, APA and grammar test, or the STAI scores. This was an expected finding. ANOVA compared the paper percentage grades in high school entry students (mean = 59.83, SD 23.45) with students with previous degrees or diplomas (mean = 74.98, SD 16.79) as well as students with some postsecondary experience (mean = 69.05, SD 16.78) F (2, 128) = 4.36, p = 0.015. This pattern mostly held when examining final percentage grades where high school entry students (mean = 67.11, SD 16.13) had lower grades than those with degrees or diplomas (mean = 80.32, SD 11.30) or some postsecondary experience (mean = 75.17, SD 12.22), F (2, 128) = 6.67, p = 0.002. Post hoc Tukey test targeted that difference as being between high school entry and previous degrees for both paper ( p = 0.012) and final ( p = 0.001) percent grades. In addition, the findings neared significance between high school entry and some postsecondary education for final grades ( p = 0.053).
As hypothesized, independent t tests showed no differences between students who self‐declared English as their second language and those who did not with respect to paper and final percent grades, SESAW, STAI and APA and grammar knowledge. A similar lack of significant difference was observed when the assessment compared those reporting less writing experience to those reporting more writing experience.
This study is unique in the body of literature examining WSE for several reasons. First, it examines WSE both pre and post a course with efficacy‐building scaffolded instructional methods and rules out the possibility of a maturation effect during a control time period where no academic writing was required. Second, it compares online and classroom instructional environments. Third, it examines WSE in self‐identified ESL and non‐ESL students, which has important implications for the instruction of writing in diverse student groups including international students. Fourth, it contributes valuable information for consideration when establishing admission policies, because nursing students direct out of high school struggle with the academic writing demands required to achieve passing grades.
As expected, WSE remained stable during the time control period when no writing was required and improved from pre‐ to postcourse in full study participants. In the experimental‐only group WSE improved but was not statistically significant. Failure to find significance in this latter group may have occurred for two possible reasons. First, the sample size was small with only 30 students in this portion of the analysis. Second, the initial WSE measure on this group was taken without a time control preceding their student experience. This group would have been responding to the first questionnaire, unaware of the nursing writing context and academic rigour of nursing education and this may have contributed to an over inflation of their initial self‐reported WSE giving little room for statistical improvement. Prat‐Sala and Redford ( 2012 ) made a similar observation in their first‐year psychology cohort. However, given that term one online students ultimately demonstrated a high degree of academic skill achieving the highest course final grades, their high WSE may have been justified.
Anxiety and WSE were negatively correlated as expected matching the findings of others when using writing apprehension or anxiety as the emotional arousal factor (Martinez et al., 2011 ; Mitchell et al., 2017 ; Pajares & Johnson, 1994 ; Sanders‐Reio et al., 2014 ). Surprisingly, anxiety did not change as a result of participating in the scholarly writing course. This finding is similar to the resilience in writing apprehension observed by Pajares and Johnson ( 1994 ). In this study, because anxiety was measured with the STAI, the STAI may have not been specific enough to writing anxiety and students may have answered the questions while envisioning their more general academic anxieties.
The APA/Grammar knowledge test produced some interesting trends in student knowledge of these writing tasks because participants demonstrated improvement of their knowledge during the control period (unexpected) as well as pre‐ to post course (expected). The improvement in scores from the beginning to the end of the control period was unexpected because students were not taking any writing instruction, completing formalized writing assignments, or being asked to apply APA style during the control phase. The noted improvement during the control period is more likely due to scoring the test by rewarding risk taking responses. By the end of their first term of study, students were more likely to guess at questions they were unsure of answers for—a trait related to learning effective test taking strategies. In addition, course readings in nursing may have exposed them to the patterns of APA in published textbooks and journals.
The most concerning but, perhaps, not surprising finding with respect to writing performance was that students who entered the programme without any previous postsecondary experience achieved the lowest writing course and paper grades while reporting similar WSE and anxiety at all measurement periods. Walsh, Prokos, and Bird ( 2014 ) noted that it is not unusual for inexperienced students to overestimate their capabilities in contexts where writing complexity and the demands of evaluators are unknown. This explanation also rationalizes the failure to find significance between students who self‐reported extensive past writing experience compared with those with little or remote past writing experience. Those who reported little writing experience likely had overestimated their WSE. Self‐evaluation is not likely to be accurate when little frame of reference is present for the experience. Context of writing is critical to accurate WSE measurements (Pajares & Johnson, 1994 ).
This study provides preliminary evidence that writing can be successfully taught in an online environment to generic baccalaureate nursing students. The online and classroom sections in second term only differed in terms of WSE at T1 with the online group reporting higher WSE. This difference is likely an indication that students heeded advice in section selection to choose the online version of the course only if they felt comfortable with their writing ability. Paradoxically, the second term online group ultimately achieved the lowest average final percent grades in the course indicating there may have been a mismatch between their self‐reported WSE and their writing ability. An overinflated sense of self‐efficacy in relation to grades, in some students, has also been observed by other authors (Williams & Takaku, 2011 ). The second term online students may have found themselves weaker in self‐regulatory skills to independently stay on pace with course materials (e.g. avoidance of the course in face of a heavy second term course load). However, because paper percentage grades did not differ significantly in this group when compared with the other sections, this is an indication that their final grades were lower as a result of poor quality of or failure to submit the other weekly assignments that contributed to their final grade. This pattern may be evidence that the second term online students did not attend to the course materials all that closely without having weekly class attendance to keep them accountable. By contrast, the first term online group had the highest final grades. This pattern may be an indication that student self‐selection of course section and previous college course credits prior to admission (required for admission to the first term online course) had a greater impact on grades in these online environments than WSE or anxiety levels. Some authors have suggested WSE instruments may be useful tools to guide course placement (Zimmerman & Bandura, 1994 ), however, if beginning students are prone to overinflate their sense of WSE, using the tool to place students in sections may not have the desired effect of appropriately grouping students by writing ability when disciplinary requirements and rigour are unknown to the student.
Identifying no differences between self‐declared ESL students and non‐ESL student in writing self‐efficacy, anxiety and grades was an important finding and similar to the results reported in Williams and Takaku ( 2011 ). Nursing instructors must be careful to not assume that ESL students are worse writers than their domestic counterparts, or overly scrutinize their work for errors because they are known ESL students.
5.3.1. scaffolding.
Similar to an earlier study in this population (Mitchell et al., 2017 ), the results of this study contribute additional knowledge that scaffolding writing assignments in an introductory discipline‐specific writing course can enhance writing ability and WSE. Miller et al. ( 2015 ), in the only other published study examining WSE in nursing students, also used a scaffolding method of structuring their writing assignments. Their population was different from this study and from Mitchell et al. ( 2017 ) in that they explored nurse‐to‐degree students late in their nursing programme. Scaffolding combines two parallel processes: (i) structuring assignments so that they are completed in progressive stages over a term (Walsh et al., 2014 ) and, (ii) instructor involvement, where the instructor or the tutor act as the scaffold in the writing process, slowly withdrawing support as writers become more independent (Benko, 2013 ; Gazza & Hunker, 2012 ; Mackiewicz & Thompson, 2014 ).
Leveling assignments within a course and across a curriculum is achieved by increasing the complexity of written assignments. This approach requires the student to progressively demonstrate abilities in Bloom's taxonomy to first, summarize and describe and then synthesize, critically analyze and evaluate topics they are investigating (Gazza & Hunker, 2012 ). This process of reducing a major writing project into manageable relevant pieces may contribute to students being able to advance their thinking to higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy (Luthy et al., 2009 ). In the course described here, this process involved short writing assignments which began with reflection and then requested students summarize one source, followed by two more writing exercises where they were asked to synthesize two and then three sources on the same topic. Scaffolding also occurred in the scholarly paper assignment. The course prescripted a schedule which had students complete the major elements of the assignment in stages, first choosing their topic, searching for supporting research, learning to make notes from their sources and develop an outline and then writing and editing a rough draft in preparation for submission for grading (Mitchell et al., 2017 ).
While scholars who discuss writing instruction in nursing agree that writing is important to critical thinking skills, reasoning and career trajectories, we agree with Miller et al.'s ( 2015 ) conclusion that writing competency in many nursing programmes is assumed rather than taught. But because writing skills develop slowly, a single discipline‐specific course is not sufficient to develop proficient writers. All instructors who include a writing assignment as an evaluation criterion in a course must consider themselves writing instructors. Instructor involvement includes teaching course content in such a way that it connects the writing assignment to prior learning and future needs (Benko, 2013 ).
The scholarly writing course requires a tremendous number of instructor hours to implement successfully with large classes. Instructors must be comfortable with their knowledge of the writing process and their ability to give advice and feedback to students in a writing process framework for benefits to be observed. Scaffolding in courses is effective for any type of writing assignment but must include the critical elements of ensuring an appropriate challenge, allowing for student choice to increase engagement with writing and providing students with the opportunity to say something of their own, all contained in a caring classroom environment where instructors can show interest in student's writing ideas (Benko, 2013 ).
While this study successfully demonstrated that a discipline‐specific scholarly writing course using scaffolding as an instructional method can improve WSE in first year nursing students, the study does have some limitations. First, the original proposal for this study intended to compare this cohort of nursing students to another group of students in the college environment who were required to complete a significant academic writing assignment without the benefit of writing instruction, however, discussions with instructors in other programmes identified that all courses were providing too much writing support to function as a true control. While the time control period enhances confidence that the scholarly writing course positively affected WSE levels, a comparison group would have been an additional strength. Second, the bonus marks for participation were included in an attempt to curb attrition from the study, however, attrition remained high and was concentrated among students who achieved the lowest grades. Thus these results cannot be generalized to students who demonstrate poor writing performance.
While this study successfully demonstrated that WSE can improve early in a nursing programme when assessed in the context of discipline‐specific writing, the empirical relationship between WSE and its role in student performance remains tenuous. In part, this is due to the difficulty in consistently assessing and scoring writing performance. The successful measurement of writing performance and detecting improvements in writing performance over time, requires similar writing assessment activities in a given course. For example, in this study, a second three‐page academic paper would have needed to be assigned early in the study—a requirement that would have put tremendous burden on both the students and the course instructors/graders. In addition, requiring a second intensive writing assignment early in a course prior to writing instruction would have likely produced high anxiety and some academically disastrous results for some students. One possible solution would be to explore the changes in drafts of the same assignment over a term.
This study used a brief grammar and APA test which was not to be considered an assessment of writing performance. It is generally well accepted among writing experts and theorists that good grammar (and application of APA format) does not equate to good writing as it is far too limiting a criterion to be a parallel assessment for performance. It may be argued that using a substitute writing assessment such as an in‐class essay is also not an adequate assessment of writing performance as it denies the student the opportunity to research, reflect, polish and be creative in their writing approach. These spontaneous essays are not a mirror for the kinds of assignments we require of students with the goal toward improving critical thinking, learning the discourse of a discipline, or creating a synthesis of knowing.
Miller et al. ( 2015 ) were likely correct in exploring changes in different sub‐components of writing performance (e.g. organization, sentence fluency, voice, or ideas), rather than exploring performance in a more global fashion such as grades or GPA, in their search for improvement over time. Williams and Takaku ( 2011 ) have suggested that the relationship between WSE and performance is likely mediated by student choices in help seeking for their writing. This study provides support for the idea that past writing experience (and more specifically, previous postsecondary experience) likely has a strong influence on writing performance in the form of grade earned in an assignment or course. But given that both experienced and inexperienced students reported similar WSE levels, this study also provided preliminary evidence that levels of WSE may bear little connection to past experiences of writing as WSE is not a stable construct and will fluctuate according to context, expectations and task requirements. Even expert writers will experience bouts of low self‐efficacy under conditions of changing expectations, challenging evaluators (sometimes external and sometimes self‐imposed) and disciplinary circumstances. However, improving writing self‐efficacy may play a role in shutting down negative self‐regulatory behaviours that lead to writing avoidance, stop students from writing, prevent them from making career choices that require writing such as advanced degrees, or keep them from writing to advocate for policy changes that may influence the nursing profession as a whole. Intervening in writing self‐efficacy could be what keeps students and nurses writing. These proposed relationships require further study.
The exploration of writing self‐efficacy and how it influences writing performance is a research area in its infancy. It is unlikely that writing self‐efficacy will dramatically improve performance across a single term as writing development is a lifelong endeavor. The only way writing performance can improve is through ongoing progressively more challenging writing. Currently a long‐term follow up of the same cohort of students is being conducted examining WSE and anxiety in terms of stability or growth over a curriculum. Help seeking, engagement with instructors, revision practices, response to feedback and progression through the programme will be investigated for their WSE connections. An exploration of the relationship between writing self‐efficacy and clinical practice success is being included. In addition to this active study, a revision of the WSE questionnaire is required to assess its discipline specific elements. Qualitative research examining the writing experiences of undergraduate nursing students are also necessary for establishing targeted interventions in this population.
This study has demonstrated that discipline‐specific writing instruction can influence writing self‐efficacy in first year nursing students. A paucity of research exists in nursing populations to address the “problem” of student writing. Scaffolding as an instructional method is a promising solution to improving student writing but requires intense instructor involvement from instructors who are confident with their own writing and confident assessing the writing of undergraduate students. Discipline‐specific writing, given that nurses communicate in a shared professional discourse, is the current recommended approach to improving writing and critical analysis skills in students at all levels of nursing education.
No conflict of interest has been declared by the authors.
Ms. Mitchell: designed, implemented and coordinated the study through all phases, developed and implemented the writing course, and wrote the manuscript.
Dr. Harrigan: contributed to the study design, provided statistical analysis and insights into the relevance of findings, and reviewed and approved the manuscript.
Dr. McMillan: provided insights to the statistical analysis, relevance of findings, and reviewed and approved the manuscript.
The first author thanks Mr. Ashley Blackman, Director, Research and Planning at Red River College, for his support and advice during the initial planning phase of this study.
Mitchell KM, Harrigan T, McMillan DE. Writing self‐efficacy in nursing students: The influence of a discipline‐specific writing environment . Nursing Open . 2017; 4 :240–250. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.90 [ PMC free article ] [ PubMed ] [ Google Scholar ]
This study was funded by the Red River College Program Innovation Fund Award 240‐15001‐09
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A guide to scholarly writing in nursing. A guide to scholarly writing in nursing. A guide to scholarly writing in nursing Imprint. 2006 Sep-Oct;53(4):80-3. Authors Donna Hallas 1 , Harriet R Feldman. Affiliation 1 Department of Undergraduate Studies, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY, USA. PMID: 17252845 No abstract available ...
Psychological Association, 2001). Write papers throughout. your nursing program that represent your best efforts at criti-. cal thinking. As a graduate nurse, begin by writing papers. (manuscripts ...
The Journal of Undergraduate Nursing Writing, Volume 5, Issue 1, August 2011. 2011 •. Heather Wurtz. The articles presented in this volume originated as assignments completed by students as part of their senior level coursework. The original call for papers did not limit their entries to any particular topic.
In an effort to enhance the writing skills of nursing students, a writing workshop was developed that addressed a specific weakness noted among students across the program: knowledge and use of American Psychological Association (APA) format. ... Rationale for using APA format included information about scholarly writing, ethical and legal ...
Proposal Writing for Nursing Capstones and Clinical Projects by Wanda E. Bonnel; Katharine Vogel Smith While advanced practice nursing students generally have good clinical skills, many lack the clinical scholarship capabilities that are required for writing scholarly proposals. The only resource of its kind, this is a practical guide for MSN project students and DNP capstone students who must ...
Writing in Nursing. by Dr. Nancyruth Leibold. Writing is a core element of nursing because it is a major form of communication. Writing in clinical records creates a record of the patient scenario. It provides information for future health care workers to access in the provision of care. Published scholarly writing allows a medium of ideas ...
Writing on the Job. Turnbul, A. (2001). Plain words for nurses: Writing and communicating effectively. London: The Foundation of Nursing Studies. Writing to Get a Job. Nursing Samples and Resources: Examples of resumes, cover letters, thank-you letters and interview questions, by and for nurses at the University of California, San Francisco.
Scholarly writing course description and environment . The course was developed using scaffolding strategies (Benko, 2013; ... unaware of the nursing writing context and academic rigour of nursing education and this may have contributed to an over inflation of their initial self‐reported WSE giving little room for statistical improvement.
This guide contains links to library materials and web resources to assist you with your Nursing Philosophy paper. It also includes tutorials and a template to help you with writing your paper in APA citation style. ... scholarly sources; APA, 7th ed. for citations and formatting. Third person, bias-free language, academic tone ...
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GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT (2024/25 Academic term) Course Number and Title: Various Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Instructor: Various Number of Positions: Qualifications Required: Graduate students in Nursing; Undergraduate degree in Nursing required; Strong critical appraisal skills; Excellent interpersonal communication skills; Very good computer skills; Excellent academic writing skills.