Module 4: Getting Started: Writing Strategies
Objectives
In this module learners will
- identify strategies to get started in the publishing process; and
- analyze strategies used by successful authors.
Lectures
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Strategies for Getting Started (3:12 min)
Experienced Authors:
How did you get started in your first publication? (9:34 min)
Tips: Advice From First-Time Writers (1:30 min)
Activities
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Activity Log Notebook
Interview (p 4). Interview an experienced author and ask how he/she got started in writing.
Reflection Assignment
Writing Strategies (p 7). List new strategies for writing that will be useful to you.
Readings and Resources
Alspach, G. (2010). Converting presentations into journal articles. Critical Care Nurse, 30(2), 8-16.
Benner, J. (1998). 10 tips for successful and fun publishing. Nurse Author and Editor,8(3), 8.
Bragadottir, H. (1998). Every nurse can be an author: On writing for publication.NursingForum, 33(4), 29-32.
Costello, J. (2012) Publish or perish: Getting yourself published. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 7(11); 549-551.
Happell, B. (2005). Disseminating nursing knowledge, A guide to writing for publication.The International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research,10(3),1147-1155.
Hill, K. (1997). Book reviewing: Keeping the audience in mind. Nurse Author and Editor, 7(1), 4-8.
Latham, C.L., & Ahern, N. (2013). Professional writing in nursing education: creating an academic-community writing center. J Nurs Educ, 52(11), 615-20.
Morton, P.G. (2013). Publishing in professional journals, part I: Getting started. AACN Advanced Critical Care, 24(2), 162-168.
Wilson, A., Sharrad, S., Rasmussen, P., Kernick, J. (2013). Publish or perish: Ensuring longevity in nurse education - Evaluation of a strategy to engage academics, students, and clinicians in publication activity. Journal of Professiona Nursing, 29(4), 210-216.
Winslow, S.A., Mullaly, L.M., Blankenship, J.S. (2008). You should publish that: Helping staff nurses get published. Nursing for Women’s Health,12(2),122- 126.