Pain-Free Writing for Nurses: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Reading this book will make you a more effective, prolific author of scholarship!This book will help increase your contributions to scholarly literature at advanced levels of education, and with practice initiatives nationwide.This book will provide:An explanation of why it is important to write and the anxiety, anger, guilt, or self-loathing that often accompanies the very thought of writingThe unique but basic structure of scholarly writingAnnotated examples you can use to write a variety of scholarly documents including: DNP, Capstone, or PhD dissertation projects; Abstracts; Data-based scholarly manuscripts; Non-data-based scholarly manuscript; Grant proposals; A better college paper; Effective letters for a job application, promotion and grievanceAn approach to finding something to write aboutHow to develop and use an outline to write a manuscriptStrategies for increasing readership of your manuscript through open access journals, Institutional Repositories, and Social MediaHow to effectively provide and successfully respond to feedback, criticism and critiqueThis book also includes humorous examples of how the authors learned to be productive scholars by providing tips, tricks, and resources they obtained through practice, trial and error or informal sharing with colleagues.