The document outlines the importance of assessing writing and information literacy skills for nursing students as part of their graduation requirements. It discusses the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) aimed at improving these skills, the evaluation of sources for academic writing, and the principles of avoiding plagiarism. Additionally, it provides guidelines for proper citation practices and emphasizes the consequences of academic dishonesty.

1. Nursing 375
Junior SEWS
Overview

2. SEWS What it is and why it matters
• Assessing how well
students’ general writing
and information literacy
skills are developing.
• Graduation requirement to
take and pass SEWS credit
courses because we expect
SEWS:
students to be proficient in Sequenced
basic writing and research Enhancement of
Writing Skills
skills.

3. SEWS & QEP
• QEP??? Quality Enhancement
Plan
• 5-year plan to improve student
skills in Information
Literacy, demonstrated most
through writing
• Show Rubric (handout)

4. Locating Information
• Books
• Library Databases
• Web Sources
• Get help from your
librarian
Dr. Tiffani R. Conner
Tiffani.Conner@lmunet.edu

5. Dr. Tiffani R. Conner, MS, MSIS
o 13 years – Academic Libraries
o Social Sciences & Information Sciences
o Data and GIS Services – Demographics
o Nuclear Remediation / Health Physics
Research areas:
o Adult learning, esp. workplace and training
o Rehabilitation education – chronic illness
o Self-directed learning and engagement
o Information literacy & digital literacy
o Assessment and evaluation
o Geriatrics

6. Web Resources

7. Library Databases
• Discipline specific and General
• Authoritative Information
• Items that cost money from other
places (websites)
• Overview of Databases at CVL

8. Evaluating Sources
Accuracy Authority Objectivity
Are sources of Who is responsible for Are biases clearly stated?
Are any political/ ideological
information and factual the work and what are agenda hidden to disguise
data listed, and their qualifications and its purpose?
available for cross- associations, and can Do they use a misleading
checking? name or other means to do
you verify them? this?
Currency Coverage Relevancy
How up-to-date is the What is the focus of Does the resource
information? the work? actually cover the
topic you are
researching?

9. Next Step – Writing
Looked for our sources
Read and evaluated them
Determined which one’s to use
Now what…..

10. Types of Academic Papers
CRITICAL
ANALYSIS
CLAIM A critical analysis ARGUMENT
focuses, for example, on how
stringently claims and
arguments are presented and
A claim, in academic terms, how conclusively ideas are
An argument presents and
is something that is asserted linked. It may also focus on discusses a central or set of
to be true or valid. It must be the style of writing or its related claims. Arguments
based on factual evidence. literary quality. In factual frequently take the form of
This must be presented. texts a critical analysis may a discussion of a thesis or
Academics analyze and start with a description of a hypothesis. They often lead
evaluate the evidence upon state or event which is then to a discussion of
which claims are based. This analyzed and compared to arguments ‘for and against’.
includes presentation of other events or interpreted in The result can be a
examples and quotation of terms of a model. A critical synthesis or conclusion.
relevant outside sources. analysis frequently leads to
an evaluation.
Multhaup, U. (n.d.). Principles of academic writing. Retrieved from http://www2.uni-
wuppertal.de/FB4/anglistik/multhaup/study_skills/7_study_skill_txt_academic_principles_acad_writing.htm

11. Academic Papers – Three parts
Introduction should clearly state the aim and topic of the paper and
give a brief outline of its structure, line of argument or choice of
perspective and type of presentation.
• Thesis Statement – Purpose/Goals
Main body of the text should be divided into sections and sub-
sections, indicated using different levels of headings
indicating transitions and turns in the discussion.
• Body
– Support thesis/purpose with evidence
– Draw conclusions, support with evidence
Summary. This is followed by a reference list containing all the
books, articles, and other sources used for producing the paper and
quoted in it.
• Conclusion section – Tie things up, restate (or reiterate) the
thesis/purpose, then illustrate how you achieved the goal

12. Plagiarism
• Plagiarism is using someone
else’s words as your own.
• Plagiarism occurs when you:
– Leave out quotations marks for
quotes
– Leave out the author’s name, date
and page number of the quote
– “Rewrite” (a.k.a. paraphrase) too
closely to the original
Create a handout with examples of
text that are/are not plagiarized…go
over in class

13. Examples of Plagiarism
& Consequences
• Joseph Biden failed a course
when he was in law course
because he plagiarized a
paper.
• Writer Alex Haley wrote a
novel, and eventually he
admitted that he had
plagiarized information
from a book entitled The
African written by Harold
Courlander.

14. Student Examples
The
The Case The Judgment
Perpetrator
An Ohio University student was
Expelled from the University of Virginia’s
College charged with plagiarizing a paper
Semester at Sea program. She was forced to
because she didn’t cite or paraphrase
Student correctly.
disembark early and go home.
He received a zero on the assignment, which
Your average UCSD student who cut caused him to fail the class and he needed to
“Tommy and pasted phrases from Internet repeat it. He also had to attend a special
Triton” websites into his research paper. workshop. For more information see UCSD’s
Policy on Integrity of Scholarship
3 college The university has already disciplined some
students faculty members, and it has notified graduates
Ohio U. Panel Rules in Plagiarism
suspected of plagiarism that they must forfeit
Cases of 3 Engineering Students
their degrees, contest the charges, or ask to
rewrite their theses.

15. Plagiarizing Articles – Nursing Journals
• The Journal of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatric Nursing, the Journal of
the American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners, and Perspectives in
Psychiatric Care
• http://www.ithenticate.com/plagia
rism-detection-
blog/bid/68824/Professor-Caught-
For-Plagiarizing-Articles-in-
Nursing-Journals

16. Let’s avoid any trouble
• Each source, quoted, paraphrased, or just helping you with an
idea must be cited (in-text and references).
– Using a quote – copy the author, date and pg. #
– Copying from a website (grab the URL and put it beside your
copied section)
– Copy/paste the un-formatted information (author, date, title,
journal) into a draft references list
• FORMAT LATER

17. Knowledge Quiz

18. One Author – First Instance
A. (Walker, 2007)
B. Walker (2007)

19. Two Authors – Second Instance
Parenthetical
A. Walker and Allen (2004)
B. (Walker & Allen, 2004)
( )

20. Three Authors – First Instance
A. (Bradley, Ramirez, & Soo, 1999)
B. Bradley, Ramirez, and Soo (1999)

21. Four Authors – Second Instance
Parenthetical
A. (Bradley et al., 2006)
B. (Bradley, Ramirez, Soo, & Walsh, 2006)

22. Five Authors – First Instance
A. Walker, Allen, Bradley, Ramirez, and Soo (2008)
B. (Walker, Allen, Bradley, Ramirez, & Soo, 2008)

23. Six+ Authors
A. Wasserstein, Walker, Allen,
Bradley, Ramirez, and Soo (2005)
B. Wasserstein et al. (2005)

24. Crediting Sources
Reference List

25. References
The slide show was designed and edited by Laura Angilee Murray for Lincoln Memorial
University’s Carnegie-Vincent Library. The text presented in this slide show was compiled by
Dr. Tiffani R. Conner. A reference list will be added as soon as one is received.
Please, remember, neither party takes credit for the content in its entirety and any
plagiarism is unintentional and will be answered by the insertion of a references list.