week 5

Question 1

Why is being able to write important to the discipline of nursing?

Answer 1

• Writing is essential in nursing for
  effective communication, critical thinking, education.

Question 2

What is PATCHWRITING?

Answer 2

• Common form of plagiarism; usually unintentional
• When the attempted paraphrase is too similar tooriginal
• Things that can be patchwriting:
• Just changing words to synonyms
• Just changing the order of words
• Ideas are all in the same order
• Not putting “same words” in quotation marks

Question 3

Provide in-text citations whenever you …

Answer 3

Paraphrase
* Quote
* Refer to data
* Adapt a table or figure

Question 4

What if I’m talking about the same source still?

Answer 4

• Cite in the first sentence.

*Then, if source & topic do not change, opt to summarize important
and relevant parts of the article rather than citing again!

• Do not break the chain of citation!