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Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"Writing for publication is essential for disseminating nursing knowledge, and this book will surely prepare budding authors and serve as a resource for experienced authors. It is a great reference for authors at all levels." Score: 100, Five Stars
-Doody's Medical Reviews
"Teaching writing is the biggest challenge when teaching these courses including the mechanics of writing and how to organize...manuscripts. Manuscript writing is so much different than writing a paper for a grade. Students don't always appreciate the amount of time and attention to detail that a manuscript takes. [This book is] excellent. Gives the students a broad overview of writing yet includes specifics, such as how to create tables."
-Kimberly Whiteman, DNP, MSN
Waynesburg University
Praise for previous edition
This award-winning book has helped thousands of nursing students and nurses produce high quality work, with its focus on all aspects of writing for professional publication. The new fifth edition offers two-color design to enhance the reading experience, expanded coverage on selecting a journal, conducting and reporting a literature review, reporting evidence syntheses, and preparing DNP projects as manuscripts, as well as a greater variety of journal examples. A full chapter on writing research reports makes this edition particularly useful for PhD students and researchers.
Designed for nursing students in MSN, DNP, and PhD programs along with faculty and practitioners interested in disseminating their scholarship, this comprehensive resource demystifies the process of writing for publication with easy-to-follow examples and expert guidance. It leads nurses step-by-step through scholarly writing from idea to publication with clear direction for a multitude of writing formats, including case reports, editorials, chapters, books, and more. Instructor Resources include a sample course syllabus, an online course with 17 modules, and PowerPoints for each module.
New to the Fifth Edition:
Enhanced reading experience with two-color design
Expanded coverage of literature reviews, writing research reports and manuscripts on quality improvement, and content related to publishing DNP scholarly projects
Types of evidence syntheses, steps to follow, and reporting guidelines
Increased guidance on selecting a journal and open access
Responding to peer reviews
Greater variety of journal examples reflecting expanded publishing options
Key Features:
Takes readers through the entire process of writing for publication from idea to completion
Delivers strategies for conducting and writing literature reviews, research reports, evidence syntheses, quality improvement and clinical practice articles, chapters, books, and more
Includes learner exercises to guide development of competencies in each chapter
Offers tips for turning dissertations, DNP scholarly projects, and course assignments into manuscripts
Details submission, editorial review, and publication processes
Contents
Contributors to the Fifth Edition
Contributors to Prior Editions
Preface
SECTION I: PREPARING TO WRITE
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. Selecting a Journal for Submission of a Manuscript
Chapter 3. Authorship and Preparing to Write
Chapter 4. Reviewing the Literature
SECTION II: WRITING RESEARCH, EVIDENCE SYNTHESES, CLINICAL PRACTICE, AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ARTICLES
Chapter 5. Research Reports
Chapter 6. Evidence Syntheses: Conducting and Reporting Reviews
Chapter 7. Clinical Practice Articles
Chapter 8. Articles Reporting Quality Improvement
SECTION III: CHAPTERS, BOOKS, AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITING
Chapter 9. Other Types of Writing
Chapter 10. Books and Book Chapters
SECTION IV: THE WRITING PROCESS
Chapter 11. Writing Process
Chapter 12. References
Chapter 13. Tables and Figures
SECTION V: FINAL PAPER THROUGH PUBLICATION
Chapter 14. Final Paper and Submission to Journal
Chapter 15. Editorial Review Process
Chapter 16. Publishing Process
Chapter 17. Open Access Journals
APPENDICIES
Appendix A: Selected Statistical Symbols and Abbreviations
Appendix B: Web Resources for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers
Index
