Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide

Thomas Lawrence Long, Cheryl Tatano Beck

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Book cover for Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide

Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide

Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide

Thomas Lawrence Long, Cheryl Tatano Beck

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Description

Writing in Nursing: A Brief Guide applies the key concepts of rhetoric and composition-audience, purpose, genre, and credibility-to examples based in nursing. It is part of a series of brief, discipline-specific writing guides from Oxford University Press designed for today's writing-intensive college courses. The series is edited by Thomas Deans (University of Connecticut) and Mya Poe (Northeastern University).

About the Author

Thomas Lawrence Long, Associate Professor-in-Residence in the University of Connecticut's School of Nursing, is an affiliate in the university's English Department and in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Cheryl Tatano Beck, Board of Trustees Distinguished in the University of Connecticut's School of Nursing, jointly appointed in the School of Medicine's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is an expert in postpartum depression and other mood disorders associated with labor and delivery.

Critical Reviews

"An essential tool for the novice and even seasoned writer."
--Sandy Carroll, Mount St. Mary's University and College of the Canyons

"This book is a sound and rhetorically focused textbook for teaching students how to analyze and write in genres relevant to the field of nursing. It provides excellent explanations and examples of the kinds of texts and purposes that drive nurses and nurse-researchers to write."
--Virginia Crank, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

"This book is a helpful tool to help new students understand how to effectively write for nursing without learning the hard way through trial and error."
--Amber McCall, Augusta University

"Useful and informative, Writing in Nursing presents nurses with a sense of the writing they will have to do in their academic and professional careers."
--Shawna Rushford-Spence, Lourdes University

Publishing Information

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub date: 2016-12-01
Length: 240 pages

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