title: Writing for professional publication. Part 4: Supporting your statements.
abstract: Motivation, appropriate content and making good use of the author guidelines were topics covered in the first three articles of this series of writing for professional publication. In this fourth part, John Fowler, an experienced nursing lecturer and author, discusses the importance of avoiding unsupported statements in writing for professional publications.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fowler
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship / Q000592:standards*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*