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Personal interviews add spice to publications--a well-written interview can inspire as well as inform. Here are 17 tips on writing by interview that will come in handy whether you are interviewing one person or several.
Clinical nurses know what works, what doesn't, and how to trouble shoot clinical problems. Yet, many hesitate to put their ideas into manuscript form. This nursing administrator shares successful strategies in motivating clinical nurses to write for publication.
Students can write successfully for publication when the teacher provides appropriate guidelines, builds confidence, and rewards all efforts. This author describes how she has successfully introduced publication criteria into graduate school papers.
The proposal is a key element in the thesis or clinical research project. It identifies what is to be studied, why the topic is relevant, and how the research will be conducted. The proposal is a detailed plan or "blueprint" for the intended study, and once it is completed, the research project should flow smoothly. Writing a proposal may seem like a daunting undertaking, but a little thought and preparation will make it easier. In this article, the author provides a sample research proposal and a set of instructions that the beginning researcher should find helpful.
Authors describe the cases of two patients, suffering from the rare, however frequently not diagnosed real writing spasm. In these patients surgery brought healing or significant improvement. After a review of the literature the symptoms, the possibilities of diagnosis and therapy are described. With their paper they want to call attention to this not well known disease.
Transition sentences help the reader move from point to point. They clarify a key point, so the reader can distinguish main points from specific details in an article or book. In this article, you will be able to practice writing transition sentences.
An empirical investigation is described which demonstrates the effectiveness of a program for dyslexic children (n = 50). The program was used with small groups of approximately 6 children within the school setting and continued for a period of 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 school years. The entire investigation lasted 5 years, so it was possible to repeat the treatment program in other schools, and additional schools participated by providing control groups. The criterion used to test for treatment effects was improvement in spelling on a standardized test after the participation in the program. The results showed highly significant improvement in writing and spelling both in the treatment groups and in the classes of which these groups were a part, whereas in the control groups there was no significant improvement between the first and second tests. An error analysis showed that the children in the treatment groups improved most in the areas that had been worked on in the program.
This article provides AANA members who are interested in seeking external funding with information that will assist them in writing a grant application. Avenues of initial contact with the funding agency are discussed, as are suggestions for drafting the appointment letter and the letter of inquiry. The development of a narrative for a grant application depends on the guidelines set forth by the funding agency and varies from agency to agency. A list of information that might be included in a narrative is provided.
Students with and without mental retardation (ns = 45 and 60, respectively) were compared on nine measures of syntactic complexity in writing at three grade levels. A multivariate analysis of variance revealed significant differences for group, but not for grade level or group by grade level. Students without mental retardation scored significantly better than those with mental retardation on all components of syntactic complexity except clause length. These results support other research in which students with mental retardation showed significant deficits in written language. Implications for remediation were discussed.
I contrast here the qualities of scientific style with the actual vices of medical writing. Besides, the grammatical tense and the concept of author in scientific literature are also briefly reviewed.
Getting the nursing position you want is a highly competitive endeavor in today's health care environment. Knowing how to market yourself can make the difference between being hired and being overlooked. Two crucial elements of a successful job search are resume writing and interviewing. The purpose of a resume is to pique the interest of the reader and secure a job interview. The interview then provides a platform for the candidate to highlight his or her achievements and convince the employer that he/she is the best choice for the position. Resume development and interviewing must be approached with skill and knowledge. A well-written resume followed by a well-executed interview gives the candidate a strong advantage in obtaining the position he/she wants.
Based on interviews, this study indicates that writing business communications is a key task for nurse managers, affecting their professional success and power. However, most of the nurse managers interviewed felt they needed more education in business communications. Several ways of bringing this training to nursing students and practicing managers are suggested.
A patient who had damage to the leftward outflow of the body of the corpus callosum experienced the development of agraphia, but not apraxia, of the left hand. In another case reported recently, a similar lesion produced the same intriguing dissociation. We suggest that the principal interhemispheric controls for praxis and for writing of the left hand operate at different levels of the corpus callosum.
To perform their myriad functions, tissues use specific cell-cell interactions that depend on the spatial ordering of multiple cell types. Recapitulating this spatial order in vitro will facilitate our understanding of function and failure in native and engineered tissue. One approach to achieving such high placement precision is to use optical forces to deposit cells directly. Toward this end, recent work with optical forces has shown that a wide range of particulate materials can be guided and deposited on surfaces to form arbitrary spatial patterns. Here we report that, when we use the light from a near-infrared diode laser focused through a low numerical aperture lens, individual embryonic chick spinal cord cells can be guided through culture medium and deposited on a glass surface to form small clusters of cells. In addition, we found that the laser light could be coupled into hollow optical fibers and that the cells could be guided inside the fibers over millimeter distances. The demonstration of fiber-based guidance extends by 2 orders of magnitude the distance over which optical manipulation can be performed with living cells. Cells guided into the fiber remained viable, as evidenced by normal cell adhesion and neurite outgrowth after exposure to the laser light. The results indicate that this particle deposition process, which we call "laser-guided direct writing," can be used to construct patterned arrays of tens to hundreds of cells using arbitrary numbers of cell types placed at arbitrary positions with micrometer-scale precision.
Cooling of hand and forearm muscles by immersion in 15 degrees C cold water for 5 minutes improved the writing performance of patients with writer's cramp. Since abnormal processing of muscle spindle afferent discharges contributes to the pathology of writer's cramp, this effect might result from a reduction in muscle spindle activity by lowering muscle temperature. Cooling is a simple, cheap, and safe procedure, providing temporary relief for patients with writer's cramp.
The pathophysiology of primary writing tremor (PWT) is still unknown: it has been classified as a focal form of essential tremor and as a tremulous form of writer's cramp. We studied cortical and spinal excitability in patients with PWT and compared the results with published data of patients with essential tremor, and writer's cramp. We used electrical stimulation of median and radial nerve to study reciprocal inhibition of forearm antagonist muscles and paired transcranial magnetic stimulation at short and long interstimulus intervals (ISIs) to assess intracortical excitability. Both studies were conducted on patients with PWT and on control subjects. The early (presynaptic) and late (disynaptic) phases of reciprocal inhibition were normal as was intracortical excitability at short and long ISIs. Our study suggests that the pathophysiology of PWT is different from that of writer's cramp and partially also from that of essential tremor.
Unskilled writers in a large urban university were taught summarization strategies based on T. A. van Dijk and W. Kintsch's (1983) text-processing theory. College freshmen enrolled in a prefreshman writing course (n = 147) were randomly assigned to three conditions for 2 days of classroom instruction in constructing a summary. Summarization instruction conditions were argument repetition or generalization with a control group taught to examine personal judgments of importance. Analysis of test summaries showed instruction in generalization was significantly more effective for stating a thesis statement. Both argument repetition and generalization were significantly more effective than the control condition in judging the importance of content. Implications for further research and for reading instruction are discussed. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
Direction in drawing depends mainly on handedness. In certain cases writing habit also has an influence, yet curiously it is less common in Western culture. Knowledge of sidedness may be important in certain squint and nystagmus cases. Kinsbourne's test is easy, innocuous and, in the author's opinion, highly reliable.