Using a writing group to promote faculty scholarship.
Writing productivity is an essential component of scholarship. Barriers to writing include intrapersonal characteristics, faculty role complexity, and time constraints. Writing groups can increase faculty members' writing, contributing to dissemination of nursing knowledge and advancement of professional nursing. The authors discuss the structure and processes of a writing group that can be adapted by faculty interested in using comentoring to increase their scholarship.
Houfek
Julia Fisco
JF
College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985330 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5330, USA. jhoufek@unmc.edu
Kaiser
Katherine Laux
KL
Visovsky
Constance
C
Barry
Teresa L
TL
Nelson
Audrey E
AE
Kaiser
Margaret M
MM
Miller
Connie L
CL
D004526:Efficiency; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010379:Peer Group; D014956:Writing