Videos and Podcasts
APA and citations
APA Basics Tutorial (7th edition)
Paraphrasing and Direct Quotation: A Brief Primer - Great video on differences between paraphrasing and quoting.
Writing tips
Organizing Your Paper
The MEAL Plan: A Brief Explanation – This is a must to improve your writing! This technique can help you organize your draft at both the paragraph and whole-paper levels.
Reverse Outlining: A Tool for Revision – You're done writing your paper, but you think something's not quite right. Reverse outlining is an excellent tool to organize your draft and check it for coherence. Find out about it here!
Grammar Tips
How to Write Better - Writing Tips on Voice, Tense, Perspective, Cliche and Wordiness – The title says it all. Includes a very clear explanation of the difference between active and passive voice.
Integrating Sources
Writing Skills Workshop: How to integrate scientific studies into your work
Synthesizing Research
Writing Skills Workshop: Building paragraphs that synthesize versus summarize
Understanding research articles
From Idea to Library – This short video resolves the mystery of what research articles are and where they come from.
Learning support
Test Taking Strategies – Do you get nervous before an exam? Worried about an up-coming test? This video can help! Specific, user-friendly techniques are explained in a light-hearted manner.
Ted talks
Check out these enlightening videos when you have a little more time:
Body Language and Communication – How your body language affects what you communicate. Interesting and informative!
Communicating Science - This clip, "Talk Nerdy to Me," has great tips on how to better convey scientific information (like nursing information!)
Narrative Medicine - This is a poignant video that could profoundly change how you approach your nursing practice.
Reading comprehension
Resumes
Nursing Resumes -- Resumes with OHSU nurses in mind
Your Nursing Resume -- A short presentation to help get you started drafting your nursing resume
Graduate students
Writing for publication
These 3 videos will help guide you through the process of publishing your own journal article.
Podcast Part 1 - Getting Started