Writing & Publishing

The Elements of Style (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White, is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of The Elements of Style details eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of commonly misused words and expressions.

While advanced practice nursing students generally have good clinical skills, many lack the clinical scholarship capabilities that are required for writing scholarly proposals. The only resource of its kind, this is a practical guide for MSN project students and DNP capstone students who must plan and organize their clinical projects into quality proposals. It provides the requisite guidelines for integrating research and best evidence with clearly communicated professional objectives. The book's how-to approach helps to demystify the organization and packaging of advanced practice clinical projects into tight proposals.

"Writing Dissertation and Grant Proposals: Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics" targets effective grant proposal writing in this highly competitive and evolving environment. Written by an established NIH reviewer with inside knowledge and an impressive track record of funding, "Writing Dissertation and Grant Proposals: Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics" is a virtual cookbook of the appropriate ingredients needed to construct a winning grant proposal. Therefore, the text is not only relevant for early-stage investigators including graduate students, medical students/residents, and postdoctoral fellows, but also valuable for experienced faculty, clinicians, epidemiologists, and health professionals who cannot seem to break the barrier to obtain NIH-funded research.

Doctors and other health professionals are increasingly drawn towards research during the course of their training, often with little guidance on the skills, techniques and personal qualities required of a medical research worker. This book, written by three authors with long experience of performing and evaluating research in medicine, provides advice for the beginner, covering in a practical and accessible fashion all the steps involved, from choosing a research project to preparing and submitting the thesis.