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LOVE this new site – and the overall concept!!
Excellent idea! I count myself as a success story as a result of your approach! I find, especially when working with students in the dissertation process, that publication after dissertation is daunting, and organization of thoughts is key. Your guidance was a key to paring it down and producing publications from the work.
Thank you! I love hearing from folks who have been successful. Thanks for sharing!
Leslie, I\’m very excited about this new development and look forward to reading it. Thank you for sharing! Holly Kapusinski
Thank you, Holly. Stay tuned, first article on Monday!
Thank you for bringing Writer’s Camp to life. As a PhD student, and a novice scholarly writer, I am deeply appreciative for the mentorship and guidance. The idea of “camp director” and “senior counselor” makes my heart smile.
Thank you so much! You are one of the targeted audiences we seek to help here at Writer’s Camp so I am glad you found us, especially early on. Your thoughts on what works and what you need will be very helpful so thanks in advance. One style decision I have made is that sitewide, we are going to use the term “learner” rather than student. I think learner is an inclusive and descriptive word and reflects a more balanced relationship in the educational ecosystem. Thanks so much for your comment! Leslie
Cheers to the camp scene, or as my Grandfather would have said with gusto–“Bully!!”. As a lifelong word lover and aspiring author, I am appreciative of your choice to use the word learner.
I WISH I had the funds to attend the conference this year! I am a 3rd year PhD student at the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing at the UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA and Portland is close! I will be starting my dissertation study this fall and a fellow PhD student tipped me off to this resource! I signed up for the INANE mailing list so that I can keep abreast of future conferences! Thanks for writing this helpful newsletter!
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Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, c-EFM, CE, LC
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD student/Teaching Associate
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-anne-dubois-bsn-rnc-ob-c-efm-901721206
Thatâs why I always have a pen and paper with me. Even thought my computer or tablet allow some creative ways to organize my thoughts, there is something special about the way writing down your thoughts on paper makes your brain work!
Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CE, LC
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD student/Teaching Associate
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
This is such important information, and I am so glad to see it posted on Writer’s Camp! A terrific resource! The same principles also apply for selecting a web platform for blog posts! Thank you Leslie!
Thanks, Peggy. One of the things to consider with writing for a blog is, do they welcome guest authors? Not all blogs do. I wanted to write something for a blog once (not at all nursing related, it had a focus on food and recipes) and was absolutely turned down. That’s the blog owner’s prerogative but I will note that the blog in question is not active anymore. 🙂
Thank you, Leslie. Great information here. What are your thoughts about using JANE?
https://jane.biosemantics.org/
I am going to be writing about JANE (and other journal selectors) in my article next week. Stay tuned!
This is incredibly helpful information! I have saved your JDD sheets and will be using them to decide where to send my dissertation manuscript! I am loving being a “camper” at Writer’s Camp! I’m learning so much!
This is incredibly helpful advice! A colleague of mine presented a paper of ours at a conference last year and an editor came up to her and did exactly as you describe in your post. We were under the false impression that it meant we were on the fast track to acceptance, because we were just a couple of naive PhD students! This blog has been so helpful and I love every post! Thanks for sharing your expertise with us!
Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, c-EFM, CE, LC
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD student/Teaching Associate
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-anne-dubois-bsn-rnc-ob-c-efm-901721206
I too am in Helsinki for the ICN congress. Enjoying the happiest place on earth.
Hello!
How can I register for the August Camporee? It says registration is now open but I canât find a link to register. Maybe there is something wrong with the way my email is displaying to me?
Thank you!
Melissa Anne
Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, c-EFM, CE, LC
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD student/Teaching Associate
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-anne-dubois-bsn-rnc-ob-c-efm-901721206
Yes the registration is right here on this post. Here’s the link on the Camporee page: https://writers-camp.org/writers-camporee/
Thank you for sharing this! What stood out most to me is how easy it is to bypass the journals we instinctively reach for when we want to feel grounded, challenged, or inspired. In chasing a “perfect fit,” we sometimes forget the journals that already feel like home, where our voices might naturally belong. This is a great reminder that starting with what we already read and trust often tells us more than any algorithm ever could. Just as importantly, we need to keep reminding nursing learners that reading widely in our areas of interest is part of becoming a scholar. I know I cannot be the only one guilty of, at times, reading for the sake of citations for assignments, and forgetting to slow down and recognize the way a journal speaks to me, feels familiar, or might someday be the right place to share my own voice.
Thank you for this wonderful reflection on the experience nobody wants to talk about! indeed, every successful author has experienced more rejection than acceptance! Your guidance here is the road to using rejection constructively! I also want to add that the “Journal Due Diligence” series that Leslie is posting on Writer’s Camp gives a path to move from rejection to the next step in the publishing process. Follow her guidance to at least prevent one of the most common reasons for rejection – you submitted to a journal not well-suited for your work!
One other thing to note – if you get a request to revise your manuscript, this is NOT a rejection! There is never a “perfect” manuscript! Take the suggestions for revision to heart, and go the work getting it done!
Thank you for your kind words! I have to admit your comment on “revision request vs rejection” made me laugh. My very first revision request I misunderstood as a rejection until Dr. Jayne Dunlap said, something to the effect of, “Noooooooo, go log back in to the dashboard and see what the revision deadline is!”
Learning to select the correct journal is probably one of the most impactful muscles to hone, especially for us newbies! Leslie’s “Journal Due Diligence” series is a game changer for all of us learning the dance of publication.
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This was such an important reminder to me. Thank you for this article and for all that is being said and shared. Holly Kapusinski
Lisa,
You are a gifted writer and scholar. I am fortunate to have you as a cohort. I am constantly and consistently learning from your writing talents. I can only imagine what you will accomplish along your journey.
Faith, I couldn’t do it without you in my corner! Your passion is a forever inspiration and I love growing right alongside you on this journey as nurse learners!
I love this post and I’m so glad you wrote it. You write beautifully and thoughtfully! It definitely took me a bunch of rejections to see rejection as opportunity (including revisions because they seemed like rejections at first). And each time it has led to a better journal fit or a better manuscript, without fail. Thank you for this important post.
Thank you for your kind words. I think that rejection is the great equalizer. I have yet to meet a single person who doesn’t have their own version of this lived experience, it binds us all together!
Thanks for all this info on which vs. that! I get especially edgy about that vs. who and I like to say “things that” and “people who.”
Excellent post! I found this extremely detailed and informative.
Leslie,
Thank you for the wealth of information. I learn each time I log onto the Writer’s Camp website.
Thank you for being uplifting and empowering to novice PhD writers. I am inspired by your scholarship, and writing. It was a privilege to have been your cohort along your PhD journey. I am very excited to attend the INANE conference in August 2025.
Shout it from the rooftops, “writing is an art and a practice!” I think this is probably the most valuable and underrated piece of knowledge, especially for new nurse writers. When we start in academia, or return after a long period of time, at least in my experience, we realize writing is incredibly challenging. We often look for courses and books that will teach us how to get better, but those are merely tools. Without the actual practice of putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) we gain new knowledge but the skill remains to be developed. I appreciate this breakdown of blogs vs articles and think that blogs are not only a great “dress rehearsal” but also an excellent way to find your voice and build confidence!
I look forward to every post from the Writer’s Camp! I am nourished both personally and professionally. Thank you for your wisdom and the inspiration that flows from each post.
Gre
Thank you Leslie! I am excited and honored to be the INANE reporter this year!
An excellent article by Miriam – the point about comparison being key is well made.
I’m honored that you invested the time in reading it: Thank you!
I was looking forward to meeting you Dr. Chin, so I guess that means I will have to make my way to California someday! Leslie is certainly doing a spectacular job and I am so excited for this conference! ~Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, PhD Student, UMass Tan Chingfen GSN
Hi Leslie,
Where do I get the awesome INANE gear with lobster logo?? And please tell me if there are inclusive sizes available! (I am 4/5x depending on style etc).
Thank you!
Jamie Bourgeois
Jamie Bourgeois, MSN, CNM, PMHNP-BC
Text or Call Direct: (603) 459-5768
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD Student
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Worcester, MA 01655
Hi Jamie–You can order from LL Bean for Business (https://www.llbeanbusiness.com/). The INANE logo is on file. It can be applied to anything that can be monogrammed. You can call them to order: 800-554-4071. Tell them you want the INANE logo or you may need to say the nursing editors logo. Thanks!
What great advice!! I particularly like “Do not hate your topic!” This is the main problem, I think, with how writing assignments in courses actually teach students to hate writing! Too often we do not help them even know what topics they actually love, and encourage them to write on those topics instead of the ones we think are important! Your experience related to bioethics is a great example, and illustrates how your professors did not even know that the topic you wanted to write about existed! But you did know – and now your voice has broken through to give all of us a reason to love nursing ethics!
Absolutely loved this piece! New writers don’t often give enough thought into what works for them – the time of day, the setting, etc. And the importance of “just do it” – start anywhere, but start. Thank you Marsha!
Hello, Melissa.
I look forward to reading your “articles” and attending INANE vicariously through your posts. I lived in Central MA (North Oxford) for a while in the mid-1990s. 🙂
Jane
Ahh yes! The home of Clara Barton!! Glad you have been able to enjoy the conference via my posts! Thank you for your comment!
Melissa—This is an amazing summary! Thank you so much for writing this so beautifully. Leslie
I am honored to be here Leslie! Thank you for the opportunity!
This is an amazing summary. Top-level reporting! I’ve read all of the posts from today. Thank you so much. Looking forward to tomorrow’s posts.
Thank you so much for your kind words and feedback! I am so honored to be here and to be reporting on such amazing presentations!
Great job Melissa! This is so cool.
It is truly my pleasure to be here and reporting! I feel like this is a dream! What a great conference!
Thank you Anna! It was so nice to meet you and learn from you!
The timing of this is PERFECT! I am teaching a course on family process and child development theories for the first time this Fall. I will be sharing this post with them as well as Dr. Chinn’s nursology.net post. I am sorry I cannot be at the conference in person, but the updates are extremely helpful.
That is perfect timing! It was a really informative talk! Thank you for your kind words and feedback!
Yay! I am so happy these updates have been helpful to so many that could not make the conference!
This is awesome! Thank you, Melissa!!
It is truly my pleasure! I’m thankful to Leslie for the opportunity to be here as reporter! Today was a great day! I look forward to tomorrow!
It was my pleasure!
My heart was full reading this piece. I have often berated myself for some of my writing quirks, thinking they were not right or that I should be different. Your piece has given me time to reflect on what is valuable in my style.
Oh, this is such a nice post I wasn’t expecting to see! I’d have been there if I could manage being on a boat! Looks like everyone is having a good time.
It was a GREAT evening but I do have to admit….I was feeling a bit squeamish when I first got on the boat! Luckily I quickly got my “sea legs” under me!
Melissa,
Thank you for reporting throughout our conference. You have been creating magnificent content that I look forward to revisiting when I return home.
Thank you!!
Love, love these posts – makes me feel not-so-bad that I’m missing out on the meeting. Thanks for doing this Melissa!
It was so much fun to be there as reporter! I am forever grateful to Leslie for the opportunity!
Your reporting was amazing!!!!
I almost felt like I was there. Loved the pictures and your summaries.
You are a talented writer.
Thank you! I am so honored to have someone whose writing I admire so much read my writing!
Melissa Anne: Thank you so much for wicked awesome reporting on the happenings at INANE these past few days. I’m at a different conference in Phoenix, and each evening I’ve caught up on INANE through your posts. You are an excellent writer and I look forward to seeing your publications in nursing journals in the future, as well as your name as EIC in the front matter of one of them… Best of luck on your comps and beyond.
Thank you for your kind words! I have to say that never in a million years did I ever think about the possibility of one day becoming an editor in any capacity and after this conference, I am inspired!
Melissa
Thank you for your EXCELLENT reporting. I regret missing INANE due to a work commitment. I have some reading to catch on but really appreciate all of your work on sharing INANE happenings!
Sarah Martin
It was truly my pleasure!
Thank you for these excellent guidelines. I would like to share this with students but have found that the doi in the citation does not link with the article. Is the doi correct?
Hi—The doi is correct but it has only been registered for the article. As soon as I publish it on Zenodo it should work. You can also just share with students right here at Writer’s Camp using the URL: https://writers-camp.org/2025/08/07/past-present-and-future-using-verb-tenses-correctly-in-scientific-research-manuscripts/
Leslie
What a great contribution to our network, Melissa! I have thoroughly enjoyed your reports! They made it almost tolerable to not being able to be there in person! Thank you so very much! Peggy
You were certainly missed, Dr. Chinn! Many people asked about you and sent their well wishes! I am honored to have had you read my reporting! Thank you!
Thank you Melissa for all of the posts. You made this truly engaging and I am most grateful.
Joy Don Baker
Thank you for your comment! It was truly a transformative conference! It was my honor to be reporter!
Melissa, you have set the bar very high for future reporters. And I stick by my suggestion that the hat must be preserved and passed down to future INANE reporters.
I think that is a GREAT idea! I will have to mail the hat to the next reporter!
We also posted a tribute to Marie Manthey on Nursology.net – posted on Feb. 11, 2025 and contributed by John Nelson, Dan Pesut, and Connie Delaney. Here is the link! https://nursology.net/2025/02/11/22753/
Thank you so much for this comprehensive overview. I particularly appreciate the evidence table. It highlights so many of the issues with generative AI that I try to communicate to my students. If it’s okay, I’d like to share a link to this post with my students this fall – please just let me know if you prefer that I do not do that.
Hi Anne—Yes, please share the link with your students. That is what Writer’s Camp is for! Leslie
How can we sign up for the September Camporee? I canât find a link in the email or in the calendar of events on the Writerâs Camp website? Thank you!
Melissa Anne
Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, c-EFM, CE, LC
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD student/Teaching Associate
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-anne-dubois-bsn-rnc-ob-c-efm-901721206
This is a great article! I have a question. You mentioned not wanting to confuse people by responding with different email addresses, which makes sense. For the past couple of years, when interacting with academic colleagues/editors etc, since I am in school, I have been using my school email address (a .edu) instead of my gmail (which is simply my name) to portray more “legitimacy” (if I’m making sense). However, I will be graduating next year and might get a job at another institution and will lose access to my school email address. This makes me feel like I should just start using my personal email address when corresponding with academia/editors because that will never change. I have this same concern with using a .edu email address as a corresponding author email address. I don’t want to appear “less professional” by listing my personal email, however, my school email will be defunct after next year. Thoughts?
Thank you for the shout out Leslie! It was my pleasure to be the INANE 2025 reporter and I am honored to have been invited to Writer’s Camp as a counselor! This is such an incredible resource that I have been sharing it with every colleague I know!
That’s a great question, Melissa. Back in the “old days” it was actually hard to get an email address—you had to sign up with a group of some sort (AOL, Yahoo). If you worked at a university, you got an .edu address and that looked very professional (compared to Hotmail, eg). Now, anyone can sign up for an email and I think folks expect @gmail as the default.
Again, in the old days, most of us had only one email address (usually work) and used that for everything. Now, that is not best practice. I think that most people have (or should have) 3 emails: work (in your case, your university address where you are a learner); “professional/personal,” and “personal/personal,” which may be reserved for family, close friends, etc. In your case, I think using your professional/personal gmail address is fine and an editor won’t look askance at that. Mostly what we want is consistency and having some confidence that the email we send will get to the person and be read. It is disconcerting to send an email to a person’s university address in May and get an automated out-of-office reply that says they won’t be checking email until August when school is back in session!
I edit papers for students at a certain university. They all have .edu addresses and most of the students use that address consistently—but there is always someone who writes from their .edu address, then a work address, then (sometimes) a third one! I reply to whatever email is in my box and don’t bother trying to find/figure out what email I should be using. I have had students whose papers have gone astray because I sent them to the “wrong” address—but that’s not really my problem. That is something the student should be monitoring and staying on top of. My 2 cents. —Leslie
Thanks Leslie! Manuscript math is such a helpful concept that I had not encountered until I read your book and this addition is another helpful way to use it.
I immediately printed out this table and taped it to my desk (yes, I am a bit old school like that). As a newer writer who feels like I am forever battling Grammarly on the correct tense this is so simple and easy to understand when explained in this manner. I actually have an article on my desk that I was getting ready to submit this morning and am making edits now based on this!
This is an exceptional blog!!!
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Thanks, Wyona. I like to think of the postings with DOI numbers as articles, not blogs, because they will be included in The Writer’s Camp Journal.
I think you raise such a great point about the differences in what you submit for course work and what your submit to a journal! In school I think professors will tell us something is “publication ready” and what they are telling us is that the ideas and arguments are built up enough to support a scholarly submission to a journal. They aren’t saying “okay go send this off as is” they are saying, “now go find your journal and build your strong case in alignment for what that journal is seeking.” This is a lesson that can help every nurse learner on their road to publication!
This is great news! Congratulations!
Thank you for sharing this guide to proofreading. The checklist is especially helpful. I did want to offer a note of caution regarding the use of Grammarly and other tools that use AI. Some professors and instructors do not permit the use of AI-based programs for *rewriting* sentences and/or paragraphs, vs. using them to check for errors in spelling or word choice. Students should check with their instructors to make sure that their use of these tools aligns with course requirements.
This is so helpful. thank you
Thank you – so helpful
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Thank you for this wonderful, informative blog, Rita! You have captured the essence of what I also know to be great editorial writing! Your insights also apply to writing blogs! For more about blogs, see https://writers-camp.org/category/blog/
This is an excellent summary of what is involved in preparing an editorial. Thank you
Absolutely spot on – I’ve been fighting a rearguard action against ‘utilise/utilize’ for decades.
Confirming pet peeve as an editor.
Very helpful to consider when writing. Thank you.
Thank you for reading the article.
Just having this conversation with some graduate students last evening! This is so helpful! I’m especially appreciate of your statement that mistakes will be made, and thinking about continually evolving in your writing career.
I am glad the article was helpful, and yes, mistakes will be made but we must learn from them. Thank you for reading the article.
Dr. Chicca,
Thank you so much for contributing this article on a very important topic, that happens to be my area of research and teaching. It is also near and dear to me because, having lived with type 1 diabetes for just over 50 years, I have copious experience with the negative, judgmental, and stigmatizing messages that people with diabetes encounter daily. “Diabetic” is only one of them.
I agree 100% that language is constantly changing and evolving. I would suggest that rather than striving to be “correct”; however, nurses can strive to be more “effective.” Effective communication – both written and spoken – is critical to what we do (and how we do it).
The language movement in diabetes has been going on for decades now. We know so much more in 2025 than we did even in 2015, and there is still so much work to do. We are working hard to encourage all health professionals to remove “diabetic” from their terminology because it is such an unhelpful and stigmatizing word (used as a noun or an adjective). We are aware that approximately 50% of people with diabetes don’t care or do prefer to call themselves “diabetic” or “a diabetic” and that is certainly their prerogative. However, when nurses lead by example and use “person with diabetes” it perpetuates an emphasis on the person first, as you mentioned.
My struggle with considering “diabetic” identity first is that “person” is also an identity. In fact, I identify as a person, who happens to have diabetes, not as a “diabetic.” In the work I’m doing, we refer to “diabetic” as “condition-first” and not “identity-first,” for that reason. Many people who’ve had diabetes for a long time, have no idea that “diabetic” is stigmatizing; they just know that it’s what they’ve been called their whole lives. Some people do see it as a badge of honor and that’s ok!
We have a very long way to go with the message changes that need to happen in diabetes and across health care, so I am grateful to people like you who are working on it now. Thanks again!
Thank you for this wonderful, thoughtful comment! Leslie
Yes, absolutely. We have to communicate in an effective and caring manner. Thank you for sharing the condition-first language. And I appreciate you reading the article.
Leslie, I love this article so much! You have outlined how we can embrace AI while maintaining integrity in our work. I use Copilot in my scholarly work to help polish sentence structure and grammar- where I was thinking of it like the old school MS Word assistant “Clippy”. My stomach dropped when I heard people referring to Copilot as AI and “cheating”. Using it to help refine my original sentence or wording of a specific idea didn’t feel like AI creation in the way many have shunned it. Fortunately, utilization of AI in this way seems to have moved into acceptable use and in my opinion, for good reason.
I am “all in” on AI, too, in the sense that we use it wisely as a resource as scholars (or in my case, a scholar-in-training!). We have the opportunity to be pioneers in how AI can assist our work without it doing our work. I say keep Counselor Byte in use.
Jamie–thanks so much. I realized another thing that Counselor Byte is doing–keeping me from running afoul of copyright laws and paying royalties. At first I asked them to create pictures for me with a goal to create a “brand” and then to stay on brand. What I didn’t fully appreciate at first, but I do now, is that all the artwork they create for me is original. I don’t have to pay copyright or royalties to anyone. When creating a website, using art legally is a big deal and I am glad I have Counselor Byte keeping me on the straight and narrow. –Leslie
Thank you, Lisa, for this truly wonderful article! You have not only provided a thoughtul and interesting reflection, you have modeled the very best example of the art of writing! Peggy
I am enjoying these articles about AI and it’s responsible use in nursing. As I mentioned in Leslie’s previous article, I am also “all in” on AI, but finding how it can work to our benefit without sacrificing original thought. I am not sure we will be able to come to a consensus quickly, and part of that problem is the technology advances quicker than we can figure it out. You have framed the discussion with some great questions, and that is helpful.
Lisa,
Your article is exceptional and well written. Your use of language and words capture what many in our profession are feeling. Excellent work on crafting such an engaging, thought provoking and important topic for nurses to be discussing and addressing.
Lisa,
You are a talented and exceptional author. You use of language and words provides clarity and is thought provoking and insightful. It is vital for nurses to share their experiences and ethical reflections, as they contribute to our discipline’s collective understanding. I appreciate your courage in sharing your story, how you addressed the issue and the outcome. I look forward to your next publication.
Very helpful article. Thank you.
Thank you for these informative and thoughtful overviews!
Thank you so much for writing this post. It can be hard to explain why anthropomorphism should be avoided. The clear examples in this post are easy to understand, and I’ll be sharing them with my students. Thanks again. Anne
Leslie,
Thank you for this paper. A related although huge annoyance to a editor is to submit a rejected paper to another journal with NO revisions that had been recommended by the initial journal editor and reviewers, including fixing typos. This happened when I was an associate editor for Nursing Research many years ago and then was asked to be a peer reviewer for the same paper submitted with NO revisions to Image: The Journal of Nursing Scholarship. Recognizing the paper (including the typos), I immediately contacted the Image editor and told her what had happened. She immediately indicated that she would reject the paper without sending it to reviewers and to tell the author why the paper was rejected.
Thanks, Jacqui. Another good example!
HI Leslie, Are there now only two options to pay? LInk and Google? I do not have either and would like to use a credit card. Please advise. Thanks… Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Kathleen Gross
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Hi Kathleen—You should be able to use any credit card. Just keep moving through the steps. I think it might show link and Google first for speed checkout, and the other cards come up next. Thanks, Leslie
Very insightful post. I know for myself, as I dive deeper into professional development and higher education, AI has been very helpful for summarizing scholarly articles that would normally take me HOURS to read! However, the point you made about interpretation and critique is fundamental to the stories we craft within the scientific community.
What a fantastic and helpful post. You have provided clear guidance on the distint differnces to be aware of when considering true limitations, and as I guide others in looking for limitations this will help me clarify these points better with them.
Excellent article and so valuable to each of us. Thank you.
Your words came at exactly the right time. Thank you, Lisa, for being so positive and practical about this sensitive topic.
This is a great article and one that I will take to heart!
Melissa Anne
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Dear Roger,
Thank you for this post! I preach this message to my authors and editors all the time. However, please check the first sentence of paragraph 3: “Academic writing aims to advance knowledge through clear, objective communication.” As a nonhuman entity, academic writing cannot aim to do anything.
Thanks again,
Angie
Hi Angie,
Thank you for flagging this — you’re right. The wording has been revised to avoid unintended anthropomorphism. Editorial vigilance applies even when the topic is vigilance itself! We appreciate your careful reading.
Best,
Leslie
Excellent information. I am excited to use this information in my own work.
Thank you, Dr. Carpenter. Very helpful. We should share this with our students.
Thank you for this clear, concise post. I am adding it to the list that I plan to share with my students at the start of the Spring semester.
Thank you, Anne!
Just did the same. They always struggle with this.
I think it is a case where learners think the fancier word is better, and it’s not.
Bravo Leslie!! I am sending this to several graduate students. Somehow, this gets missed (the difference) in research classes. Pleased that you added it to your camping notes~ Victoria
A useful tidbit for the camp notebook. Thanks, Victoria.
Hi Leslie!
This really was a prolific year for you and Writer\’s Camp! Congratulations to you and your team! I look forward to all that is to come this year!
Best,
Melissa Anne
Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD Candidate in Nursing
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
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Another great article for me to bookmark!
I laughed out loud when I read the word \”Promulgate\” because I encountered that word, truthfully, like 3 times last month when I was doing my ROL for my dissertation proposal and I had to look it up every time to make sure I remembered what it meant! So YES! Plain language PLEASE!!
Thanks again for another helpful article!
Melissa Anne
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Thank you, Melissa. I appreciate you reading the article, and I am glad you enjoyed it.
This is an INCREDIBLY helpful article! This was a BIG area of confusion for myself and my colleagues in our Stewarding the Discipline class. As usual, I wish I had access to Writer\’s Camp when I started in my PhD program! These articles need to be turned into an edited book for nursing PhD students! \”A Student\’s Guide to Surviving a Nursing PhD Program\”!!!
Melissa Anne
Melissa Anne DuBois, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
PhD Candidate in Nursing
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
UMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655
melissa.dubois@umassmed.edumelissa.dubois@umassmed.edu
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Leslie,
You\’ve done it again – what a great article. I love this framework that goes beyond the traditional editorial integrity vs business goals. So much more to consider.
Thanks!
Shawn
Maureen \”Shawn\” Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN Editor in Chief Emerita, American Journal of Nursing Contributing Editor, JAMA Health Forum mashawnken@gmail.com ________________________________
Thank you, Shawn. Stay tuned as the article with the whole Journal Systems Framework will post on Thursday. I am eager to see what you think! Leslie
This is a highly significant contribution to scholarly publishing! The clarity with which you have explained the landscape of journal publishing is exceptional, and brings to light many of the mysteries surrounding the publishing process. The interesting thing is that these are not intended to be “mysteries” at all! Journal publishing is akin to a performance on stage — everything appears to the audience as a refined, perhaps entertaining, perhaps informative public performance. But all the stuff that happens “back stage” and behind the curtains – necessary to the final performance – intentionally remains behind the curtains! Your framework gives all of us a way to understand these back-stage processes, and why they exist.
Peggy–
Thank you so much for this generous and thoughtful comment. I especially love your “backstage” metaphor for journal publishing; that captures exactly what I was trying to do with the JSF. So much of what makes journals function is intentionally invisible, and yet those hidden processes shape everything authors and readers experience.
One of my hopes with this work is to make that backstage machinery a little more visible—so we can talk about capacity, constraints, and governance more honestly, and not treat outcomes as if they were magic or simply the result of individual excellence. –Leslie
Last year I participated in my first writing retreat and loved the experience so much I made a plan to do it every year at the conference this is part of – one of my professional associations. But this gives me ideas for a plan we have here in our organization for mentoring nurses to become writers too!
This article inspired the idea of a beach house writing getaway, bringing our friend group together to encourage, support, and focus on beginning the dissertation chapter writing in a relaxed and focused setting. Thank you for sharing the power and bonding opportunities of writing retreats.