Writing Resources

This site discusses style as an important aspect of writing. Aspects of style help you craft engaging, dynamic prose and clearly communicate your information and purpose as a writer.

Tips and strategies to ensure writing is suitable for an academic audience.

Grammarly Blog post announcing several major style manuals accept the usage of the singular they.

Personal communication from designated expert for APA 7th describing preferred use of the first-person pronoun in writing "when expressing your own views."

Framework (online) of sections of SQUIRE styled article, with links within each section to further details. External links to SQUIRE resources. The SQUIRE guidelines are intended for reports that describe system level work to improve the quality, safety, and value of healthcare, and used methods to establish that observed outcomes were due to the intervention(s).

Dr. Goodman (one of the authors on the revision team of SQUIRE 2.0) presents (2016) on SQUIRE guidelines for FNU DNP.

Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence. BMJ article (2015) provides consensus statement with detailed descriptions of elements of all parts of a Quality Improvement manuscript.

This Explantaion and Elaboration document (E&E) is a companion to the revised SQUIRE guidellines, SQUIRE 2.0. This document provides examples from the published literature, and an explanation of how each reflects the intent of a specific item of SQUIRE.