Improvements to the My DNP Manuscript Writing Program
As part of their participation in the My DNP Manuscript pilot program, participating DNP students were required to answer detailed surveys about their experience using the video sessions that make up the program.
In addition to their outstanding positive feedback about the initial pilot program, they offered useful tips for how to improve the online instructional program to make it even more likely to help doctor of nursing practice students improve their writing.
Below is a list of the few recommendations that pilot participants had for how to improve the existing manuscript-writing program.
In addition to their outstanding positive feedback about the initial pilot program, they offered useful tips for how to improve the online instructional program to make it even more likely to help doctor of nursing practice students improve their writing.
Below is a list of the few recommendations that pilot participants had for how to improve the existing manuscript-writing program.
1. Include an example of a complete introduction section
We've added two full-length Bonus Videos featuring (1) a complete background section, with both broad and local problem statements, as well as (2) a complete introduction section with the broad and local problem statements and an example of a thorough literature/evidence review!
2. Give examples of how to check that literature review content relates directly to project outcomes
We've not only added tips for how to check this content, we've also added methods to double check that your problem statements, literature review, aims, methods, and results all match up and make sense to a peer reviewer or editor. This step is key if you hope to have impartial readers make sense of your important work!
3. Give an example of how to combine data collection with implementation sections in the methods
Because this combining of subsections is so common in DNP, EBP, and QI projects, we have added a complete Bonus Video with instructions regarding how to combine the two subsections of the methods.
4. More discussion about proper transitions to use in each section
Transitions are the mark of a skilled writer. Therefore, we've added a massive Bonus Video, complete with 3 very different example papers, showing you exactly what transitions are, how to use them, and how they work to make every paragraph and section of a manuscript shine. Your readers will love reading your work when you properly use transitions!
We've added two full-length Bonus Videos featuring (1) a complete background section, with both broad and local problem statements, as well as (2) a complete introduction section with the broad and local problem statements and an example of a thorough literature/evidence review!
2. Give examples of how to check that literature review content relates directly to project outcomes
We've not only added tips for how to check this content, we've also added methods to double check that your problem statements, literature review, aims, methods, and results all match up and make sense to a peer reviewer or editor. This step is key if you hope to have impartial readers make sense of your important work!
3. Give an example of how to combine data collection with implementation sections in the methods
Because this combining of subsections is so common in DNP, EBP, and QI projects, we have added a complete Bonus Video with instructions regarding how to combine the two subsections of the methods.
4. More discussion about proper transitions to use in each section
Transitions are the mark of a skilled writer. Therefore, we've added a massive Bonus Video, complete with 3 very different example papers, showing you exactly what transitions are, how to use them, and how they work to make every paragraph and section of a manuscript shine. Your readers will love reading your work when you properly use transitions!
All of those recommendations have been incorporated into the revised and expanded 2nd edition of the program, and we've also taken the time to add 1 to 3 minutes of further instruction to each of the 6 core videos.
Read about the complete, expanded program here.
Read about the complete, expanded program here.
Further Updates and a 3rd Edition of the On-demand Program Coming in 2021
A sneak peek at the new 3rd edition of the My DNP Manuscript signature program design.
After a successful and inspiring instructor-led program in late 2020, significant revisions to the design, delivery, and format of the on-demand writing program are being undertaken!
The following changes are in the process of being made to a new 3rd edition:
The following changes are in the process of being made to a new 3rd edition:
- Complete redesign of all slides
- Each "Step" in the program divided into several shorter videos, rather than one long video for each
- Two new videos: Why and How to Select a Journal First; and How to Write About Theories, Models, and Frameworks
This new 3rd edition will be released in late Fall 2021. In the meantime, pilot testers' original feedback has been applied to the 2nd edition course, which you can access today.