title: Use of an online writing tutorial to improve writing skills in nursing courses.
abstract: Nursing students often struggle with writing style and the presentation of a logical flow of ideas. To help students enhance their scholastic writing skills, nursing faculty implemented an online program to improve syntax, grammar, and presentation of thoughts. The authors discuss a descriptive study and its results, which did demonstrate the effectiveness of the writing tutorial in Web-based nursing courses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, California, USA. sroberts@miracosta.edu
authors.forename: Susan T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Gay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goss
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004522:Educational Status; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D008037:Linguistics / Q000193:education*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards*