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Writing for Nursing and Midwifery Students

3rd edition

Julio Gimenez

Julio Gimenez, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2007, 2011, 2019

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First edition 2007

Second edition 2011

This edition published 2019 by

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Previous editions published by Palgrave

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Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

My first debt of gratitude is to those who wrote about writing before me and have therefore influenced my views and approach to teaching how to write in specific genres: John Swales, Charles Bazerman, Carolyn R. Miller, Chris Candlin, V. K. Bhatia and Ken Hyland, among many others.

I am also indebted to Suzannah Burywood, my commissioning editor, for her support and encouragement. I would also like to thank the four reviewers of the book whose comments have made this a better project. I did not always follow their advice, however, so the remaining flaws are my entire responsibility.

I am thankful to my colleagues at Middlesex University who provided me with enlightening comments during the writing process. Special thanks go to Victoria Odeniyi and Gillian Lazar at ELLS. I am similarly grateful to Clare Maher and Jane Raymond for their invaluable comments and support with the discipline-specific contents of the book, and to Dilys Hall for introducing me to RefWorks. I am equally thankful to my colleague and friend Beverly Fairfax for her comments and feedback on the first draft of the book.

This new edition has benefited immensely from the comments made by a large number of nursing, midwifery and writing lecturers who have adopted the book, and the many students who have also provided me with invaluable feedback. To all of them, I remain indebted.

I am thankful to EndNote and RefWorks for permission to reproduce the screenshots on pages 176179, and Refbase for permission to reproduce a screenshot of their main page on page 180.

To my students past and present who have given me the best a teacher can get, challenging comments and questions, thank you. Most of the ideas and materials in this book started as answers to such comments and questions.

These acknowledgements would be incomplete without thanking my family and colleagues who have once more believed in my projects; all my gratitude for their love and patience.

Julio Gimenez
University of Westminster, London, UK

Introduction

One of the most difficult tasks we are faced with when we enter university is writing. Not only are we asked to deal with new content, we are also required to engage in new intellectual processes and, in many cases, we must even learn to organize and structure knowledge in new ways. Writing, and especially writing assignments, becomes even more taxing for adult students who have been away from formal education for quite some time and come back to university via top-up courses or back-to-practice programmes.