title: Righting writing: strategies for improving nursing student papers.
abstract: The ability to clearly express complex ideas in writing is necessary for nurses in professional practice at all levels from novice to expert. The community health nursing course is specially designated as writing intensive to provide students with the experience of preparing a major scholarly paper. To address issues of poor paper quality and grade inflation we implemented a program including a writing workshop for faculty, a revision of the grading rubric, and a system of blind review for grading student papers. Changes resulted in a major shift in paper grades which more closely reflects the actual quality of the work.
authors.affiliation: Wayne State University, USA. jbickes@wayne.edu
authors.forename: Joan T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Bickes
authors.forename: Stephanie M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Schim
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D020377:Self Efficacy; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D014956:Writing / Q000592:standards*