Writing & Publishing Resources

 Resources on Writing & Publishing

 Websites ~ Writing Centers

 Emory University Writing Center Online: www.cc.emory.edu/English/WC  National Partnership for Reinventing Government, Plain Language Action Network: www.plainlanguage.gov  Perdue University, list of Online Writing Labs & Writing Centers on the Web: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/writing-labs.html  St. Cloud State University, The Write Place, Literacy Education Online: www.leo.stcloud.msus.edu  University of Richmond, VA, Writer’s Web: www.urich.edu

 Books ~ General

Anson, Chris M., Schwegler, Robert A. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers. 2nd ed. New York : Longman, 2000. Strunk Wm, White EB, & Angell, Roger. The Elements of Style, 4th ed. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000. Witte, Florence M. Sentence Structure and Patterns. Rockville, Maryland: American Medical Writers Association, 2007. Zinsser Wm. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary ed. New York, NY: Harper- Collins, 2006.

 Books ~ Nursing & Healthcare

Gastel, Barbara. 2005. Health Writer's Handbook, 2nd ed.. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell. Huth, Edward J. Writing and Publishing in Medicine. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1999. Iverson, Cheryl, Christiansen, Stacy & Flanagin, Annette, et al. AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 10th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. Oermann, Marilyn H. Writing for Publication in Nursing. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. Witte, Florence M. Basic Grammar and Usage for Biomedical Communicators. Rockville, Maryland: American Medical Writers Association, 2003. Page 2 of 3

 Nursing journal articles

Alspach JG. The #1 secret to getting published. Crit Care Nurse. 2004;24(6):8,10,12. Genovich-Richards J. Writing for publication--getting started. J Healthc Qual. 2008 Mar-Apr;30(2):2, 47. Fulton JS. Write now!. Clin Nurse Spec. 2008 Jan-Feb;22(1):5. Genovich-Richards J. Writing for publication--getting started. J Healthc Qual. 2008 Mar-Apr;30(2):2, 47. Happell B. Writing for publication: a practical guide. Nurs Stand. 2008 Mar 19- 25;22(28):35-40. Sandelowski M. Reading, writing and systematic review. J Adv Nurs. 2008 Oct;64(1):104-10. Smith, Alison. “Publish or Perish: The Write Thing for Nursing. Nursing Economics, 2004;22(6):342-343. Winslow EH. Writing for publication: you can do it!. J Healthc Qual. 2008 Jul- Aug;30(4):12-6. Wink, Diane M. Writing to Get Published. Nephrology Nurs J, 29 Oct 2002, pp.461-468.

 Responding to Reviewer Comments

Conn V. Manuscript revision strategies. West J Nurs Res, 2007; 29(7):786-788. Friedman J. Rejection. Med Health R I, 2007; 90(12):374. Millett, Declan. Dealing with reviewers’ comments. J Orthodontics, 2006; 33: 69- 70. Pierson, Charon. The 4 Rs of Revising Your Manuscript: Reading, reflecting, rewriting and responding. Nurse Author & Editor. 2008; 18(2). Available at http://www.nurseauthoreditor.com/article.asp?id=105 Wager, Elizabeth, Fiona Godlee and Tom Jefferson. How to Survive Peer Review. London/Oxford: BMJ Publishing/Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.

 Writing Quality Improvement Reports

SQUIRE Guidelines_ standardized headings for a QI report. http://www.squire- statement.org/guidelines/ Ogrinc G, Mooney SE, Estrada C, Foster T, Goldmann D, Hall LW, Huizinga MM, Liu SK, Mills P, Neily J, Nelson W, Pronovost PJ, Provost L, Rubenstein LV, Speroff T, Splaine M, Thomson R, Tomolo AM, Watts B. The SQUIRE Page 3 of 3

(Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guidelines for quality improvement reporting: explanation and elaboration. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008 Oct;17 Suppl 1:i13-32.

 Writing & Publishing Research

 Writing Research Reports

Bennett JA. The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT): Guidelines for reporting ramdomized trials. NursRes. 2005. 54(2):128-132. Burnard, Philip. Writing a qualitative research report. Accident and Emergency Nursing, 12(3), July 2004, 176-181. Claire, Judith & Hamilton, Helen, eds. Writing Research: Transforming Data into Text. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2003. Day, Robert A. and Barbara Gastel. How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 6th ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America; 2003. Keech, Anthony, Val Gebski and Rhana Pike (editors). Interpreting and reporting clinical trials: a guide to the CONSORT statement and the principles of randomized controlled trials. Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Co., 2007. Wager, Elizabeth. Getting Research Published: An A to Z of Publication Strategy. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd., 2005.

 Writing research reports for clinical journals

Browner, Warren S. Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research, 2nd ed. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. Kearney MH. Seeking the sound bite: reading and writing clinically useful qualitative research. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2005 Jul- Aug;34(4):417 Oermann MH, Galvin EA, Floyd JA, Roop JC. Presenting research to clinicians: strategies for writing about research findings. Nurse Res. 2006;13(4):66-74. Tornquist EM, Funk SG, Champagne MT. Writing research reports for clinical audiences. West J Nurs Res. 1989 Oct;11(5):576-82.