Strategies for successful academic writing - Institutional and non-institutional support for students

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1624-1631

  Gopee, Neil ^a   Deane, Mary ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Barriers to writing; Motivation to write; Peer support; Peer collaboration; Social capital; Writing enablers; Writing in genres

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WRITING;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL CAPITAL; WRITING;

EID: 84885960415     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: 15322793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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