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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7950
Tracking Number - 1605
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2008-01-14
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HDC-006201-10000
- Contact Person: Mary Evans
- Phone: 49112
- Email: mevans@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 7950
- Full Title: Scientific Writing - Writing for Publication
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: O -
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- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Writing for Publication
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
S - S/U Only
- Prerequisites: Admission to DNP or Ph.D. program
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course focuses on the development of a scholarly empirical manuscript or technical report of publishable quality.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Currently students take NGR 6950 Capstone which is a masters level writing course. The College plans to offer a writing course at the doctoral level as a requirement for the DNP students and an elective for the PhD students.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Since it is a required courses it can be offered minimally once per year.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? This will be the first time the course is offered.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) The faculty member will have a DNP or PhD degree in the discipline or an interdisciplinary discipline.
- Objectives: The student will:
1. apply written communication skills in the development of an empirical scientific manuscript.
2. construct a scientific abstract.
3. display the accepted scientific format for the theoretical aspect of a scientific manuscript or technical report (review of literature).
4. display the accepted scientific format for the empirical aspect of a scientific manuscript.
5. construct tables and figures associated with a scientific manuscript.
6. describe methods and places to disseminate research.
- Learning Outcomes: The student will:
1. apply written communication skills in the development of an empirical scientific manuscript.
2. construct a scientific abstract.
3. display the accepted scientific format for the theoretical aspect of a scientific manuscript or technical report (review of literature).
4. display the accepted scientific format for the empirical aspect of a scientific manuscript.
5. construct tables and figures associated with a scientific manuscript.
6. describe methods and places to disseminate research.
- Major Topics: Syllabus and course expectations.
Introduction to scientific writing Fridlund (2006) editorial on writing a scientific manuscript.
Kotur (2002)
Saver (2006)
- Textbooks: Recommended Textbooks:
Peat, J., Elliott, E., Baur, L., & Keena, V. (2002). Scientific writing: easy when you know how BMJ Publishing group: London.
Oermann, M.H. (2002). Writing for publication in nursing. Philidelphia: Lippincott.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.