Academic Innovation team members provide CONHI faculty members with resources for developing their scholarship related to teaching and learning. Interprofessional faculty writing groups begin each semester. Individual consultation is available at any point in the educational scholarship process from project design through IRB application, data collection, and manuscript development.

CONHI Writing Groups

Interprofessional groups of faculty meet on alternate weeks to provide and receive constructive feedback for moving their writing projects forward. New groups begin each semester. Groups are co-facilitated by staff from Academic Innovation and Research Initiatives, Support & Engagement (R.I.S.E.).  Watch the CONHI newsletter for announcements of new groups at the neginning of each semester.

Consultation & Support

Contact Academic Innovation Staff for assistance in these areas:

• Scholarly project design and IRB application
• Evaluation tools and outcome measures
• Drafting abstracts, posters, and slides for presentation
• Planning, drafting, editing, and revising manuscripts

Resources for Authors

• Writing for Professional Journals - A comprehensive free online course including multiple modules related to the writing and publishing processes. Short video clips and development activities are provided
• Nurse Author & Editor Journal - Articles offering advice on writing quality manuscripts, avoiding rejection, finding publishing opportunities, editing and reviewing 
• Finding Your Audience- Directory of Nursing Journals - Find a place for your writing 
• Journals that publish the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) 
• Journal Author Name Estimator-JANE - Enter the title, abstract, or keywords of the manuscript you are writing to find the best matches in journals, authors or articles 
• Revising and Polishing- Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Examples of organizing sentence mechanics and correct use of punctuation 
• Grammar, Common Writing Problems, General Writing Skills, Writing Tools - Access to a range of writing resources 

Resources for Writing about Specific Types of Projects

• Quality improvement projects in healthcare- Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE 2.0) 
• Systematic reviews, educational interventions - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)
• Educational research methods (varied) REPOrting of primary empirical research Studies in Education (REPOSE)
• Qualitative methods - Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ)
• Randomized controlled trials - Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT)