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Selected Resources about and for Writing and Research

Updated March 6, 2014

ASU Library Guides (), among which are the following:

“Getting Published” (at ), including, among other tabs, (1) Author Rights:

- *What rights will you choose to sign over to a publisher, and which will you choose to keep? (For example: the right to use your material in any class and to allow others to use it in classes, without limit); and (2) Select a Journal:

- *Resources to find out more about journal options.

“Faculty Research Support”: - * A guide to research resources and library services for new and established ASU faculty.

“Scholarly Communication”: - * A guide to issues in scholarly communication, including publishing, open access, copyright, author rights, and digital archiving.

Barroso, J., Sandelowski, M., & Voils, C. (2006, August). Research results have expiration dates: ensuring timely systematic reviews. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 12 (4): 454-462.

Abstract: Time and timeliness are key issues in appraising and ensuring the clinical relevance of systematic reviews. Time considerations entering the systematic review process include the history of the clinical problem, disease, or treatment that is the target of the review, and the history of the research conducted to address it. These considerations guide: (i) formulation of the research problems and questions; (ii) setting of parameters for the search and retrieval of studies; (iii) determination of inclusion and exclusion criteria; (iv) appraisal of the clinical relevance of findings; (v) selection of the findings that will be synthesized; and (vi) interpretation of the results of that synthesis.

Brohaugh, W. (2007). Write Tight: Say Exactly What You Mean with Precision and Power, Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks.

Dedoose: qualitative research software – see at

Froman, R. D. (2011). Format, style, and precision. Research in Nursing & Health, 34(1), 1-3 [Editorial]

Inouye, S. K., & Fiellin, D. A. (2005, February). An evidence-based guide to writing grant proposals for clinical research. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142, 274-282. [Also available at ]

JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator): : “Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help! Just enter the title and/or abstract of the paper in the box, and click on 'Find journals', 'Find authors' or 'Find Articles'. Jane will then compare your document to millions of documents in Medline to find the best matching journals, authors or articles. . . . Instead of using a title or abstract, you can also search using a keyword search, similar to popular web search engines. ”

Jennines, B. M. (2011). Writing: There’s No “App” for That. Research in Nursing & Health, 34, 267-269. [Editorial]

Ness, V., Duffy, K., McCallum, J., & Price, L. (2013). Getting published: Reflections of a collaborative writing group. Nurse Education Today, article in press, accepted March 31, 2013.

NIH Guides for Writing Grants

(There are examples; see the web sites of the individual centers and offices for additional resources.)

NIH’s Grant Writing Tips Sheets:

NIH’s “Plain Language” site:

With training at [See also next section: Plain Language Sites]

NCI’s Quick Guide for Grant Applications:

See also = NCI’s Behavioral Research site: Behavioral Measures, Evaluation Instruments, Surveys & Databases, et al.

NHLBI, Clinical Research Guide -

Nurse Author & Editor newsletter

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Nurse Author & Editor is an international publication dedicated to nurse authors, editors and reviewers.  It was first published in 1991 as a print publication but it is now published by Blackwell Publishing as a free quarterly online publication at . 

Each issue consists of articles offering advice on writing quality manuscripts, avoiding rejection, finding publishing opportunities, editing and reviewing.  Each issue also has a section containing short articles to update readers on new developments in nursing journals and journal publishing.

As well as each issue of Nurse Author & Editor, offers other resources such as the Nursing Journals Directory.  We also have pages dedicated to reviewers, authors and editors. 

Plain Language Sites

In addition to the NIH site (see above), training materials (modules et al.) are available from such sites as Program for Readability in Science and Medicine (PRISM): they direct much of the advice to preparing materials for research participants, e.g., consent forms, but they have more general advice that is good in any situation:

- 55 pages, with “Overview – Introduction to Plain Language” starting on page 25; good resources

See also the PRISM Readability Toolkit at

: see, e.g., its “Examples Database” (including before-and-after examples) and “Tips and Tools.”

Others are listed at the bottom of - including tutorials under “Training,” under “Where Can I Learn More?”

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

- This site is terrific, and very handy, but please do get copies of the style manuals you will need and not rely on OWL – that is, go right to the source for the information.

RINAH (Research in Nursing & Health) has articles or editorials on writing. Several are cited here.

Roman, R. D., Hall, A. W., Shah, A., Bernstein, J. M., & Galloway, R. Y. (2003, October). A methodology for supporting research and scholarship. Nursing Outlook, 51, 84-89.

Sandelowski, M. (2005). I speak English, don't I? RINAH, 28(3): 185-186 [Editorial].

(This one is especially good.)

Sandelowski, M. (2006). Divide and conquer: Avoiding duplication in the reporting of qualitative research, RINAH, 29, 371-373 [Editorial].

Sandelowski, M. (2007). Words that should be seen but not written. RINAH, 30(2): 129-130 [Editorial].

Struck, W., & White, E. B. (2009). The Elements of Style, 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Truss, L. (2003). Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. London: Profile Books.

Ulrichs Journals database



*Ulrichs database is great for information about scholarly or popular journals/periodicals/magazines. For popular magazines they often include a 'Demographics' section that will help define the likely audience. You can search Ulrichs by a topic or subject to discover journals (or popular magazines) with a focus in that topic/subject area --In addition to Demographics, Ulrichs lets you filter your results by many categories such as peer-reviewed/refereed, abstracting/indexing, open access, etc.

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