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Week 3 Discussion

Scholarly Writing and Plagiarism

As a nurse embarking on an advanced degree, you are
developing the characteristics of a scholar-practitioner, which includes strong
communication skills. Writing in a scholarly manner involves supporting your
thoughts with evidence from the literature and appropriately using APA.

One of the challenges of scholarly writing is paraphrasing
the thoughts of others in your work. Paraphrasing, and correctly citing the
original author for his or her ideas, allows you to take the ideas of others,
summarize them, and incorporate them into your own writing. When summarizing
the ideas of others, it is important to avoid plagiarizing (copying the words
and ideas of others as though they were your own). In addition to expanding
your knowledge of APA, this week’s Learning Resources help you to distinguish
between paraphrasing and plagiarizing.

To prepare:

Think about the sometimes subtle difference between
plagiarizing and paraphrasing.

Read the following paragraphs, which were written by
Patricia O’Conner:

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.
If you want a workout, you don’t lift a book—you lift weights. Yet we’re
brainwashed to believe that the more brilliant the writer, the tougher the
going.

The truth is that the reader is always right. Chances are,
if something you’re reading doesn’t make sense, it’s not your fault—it’s the
writer’s. And if something you write doesn’t get your point across, it’s
probably not the reader’s fault—it’s yours. Too many readers are intimidated
and humbled by what they can’t understand, and in some cases that’s precisely
the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just
confusion. A venerable tradition, dating back to the ancient Greek orators,
teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about, just ratchet up the
level of difficulty and no one will ever know.

Don’t confuse simplicity, though, with simplemindedness. A
good writer can express an extremely complicated idea clearly and make the job
look effortless. But such simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve because to
be clear in your writing you have to be clear in your thinking. This is why the
simplest and clearest writing has the greatest power to delight, surprise,
inform, and move the reader. You can’t have this kind of shared understanding
if writer and reader are in an adversary relationship. (pp. 195–196)

Source: O’Conner, P. (2003). Woe is I: The grammarphobe’s
guide to better English in plain English. New York: Riverhead Books.

Paraphrase this passage from O’Conner using no more than
75–100 words. Remember that paraphrasing means summarizing the essence of the
original text. It does not mean creating a thesaurus-based revision of the
author’s original words or copying the piece, or any part of it, word for word.
For this activity, do not use any direct quotes.

Turn your paraphrase into Grammarly and Safe Assign.

Review your reports.

Review the other tools, resources, and services available to
you through the Walden Writing Center that support your growth as a scholarly
writer.

Consider which of these resources you find to be most
useful.

Review learning resources on APA formatting rules and
information within the Walden Writing Center on APA.

By Day 3

Post a description of your experience of using Grammarly and
Safe Assign and share at least one insight you gained about paraphrasing and
avoiding plagiarism as a matter of academic integrity. Recommend at least one
other online resource that supports scholarly writing, and explain your
rationale. Lastly, share two APA formatting rules with the class and a specific
page number in the APA manual where this rule can be located

Support your Discussion assignment with specific resources
used in its preparation using APA formatting. You are asked to provide a
reference for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this
course.

By Day 6

Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different
days in one or more of the following ways:

Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional
background information, evidence or research.

Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings,
synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.

Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings
from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library.

Validate an idea with your own experience and additional
research.

Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from
readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.

Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional
insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.

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