Welcome Back NYUCN Students!

NYUCN  Office of Advising and Academic Services welcomes you to the Spring 2015 semester!

Classes begin next week and it is officially the beginning of a new semester. To dust off on your grammar and writing skills, please come to next weeks event, Writing in Style: For the Health Industry. Good writing styles are essential in the health field, and this  workshop will be a interactive refresher for students. Will be taught by Communications Consultant Barbara Kancelbaum, a NYUCN Alum. Will be held at the Wasserman Center, 133 E. 13th St. 2nd floor. Friday, January 30th from 3PM to 5PM. To RSVP go to NYU CareerNet, and search "writing in Style"; click here. 

We draw your attention  to the following reminders:

Scholarship Deadlines

Minority Nurse Magazine Scholarship (click for application & info.)

Due February 1st 

Arnold and Marie Schwartz fund for Nursing Scholarship (click for application & info.)

Application opens January 26th; due Februrary 14th

Anna Lynch Turner Scholarhship in Graduate Nursing (the click for application & info.)

Application opens January 26th; due February 14th

APA Style Knowledge!

Writing a lot of final papers? Don't know how to reference a journal article correctly or cite more than one author? It's always good to understand how APA works. You use it daily in your education and professors expect you to have a solid understanding of it and use it correctly! 

There are so many rules with APA...
--References
--Citations in text
--How to quote a source
--Rules for using parenthesis in a paper
--Levels of headings
--...and much, much more! 

If you can't wrap your head around it, The Office of Academic Advising offers APA workshops - so stay tuned in the fall for more workshops. In the mean time you can view this tutorial on how to use APA style:
http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

And don't forget - you can also ask a librarian! Visit the Bobst Library Ask a Librarian Page here: http://library.nyu.edu/ask/

Happy Writing!
The NYUCN Advising Team

Undergrads: Tackle Writer's Block!

Throughout your undergraduate career you will write thousands of pages! Professors expect proper grammar, sentence structure, organized thoughts, proper punctuation, and a strong thesis statement among other things. So what can you do to improve your writing skills? Utilize one of the many FREE writing resources available at the University:

NYU Writing Center - Work with writing consultants at every stage of the writing process. But keep in mind:  the consultants at the writing center are not proofreaders, editors, ghostwriters, or graders of your paper. If you need help with sentence structure and grammar, they will address those rules with you. Come prepared with copies of your papers and information on assignments. The more prepared you are the more you will get out of the session. To make an appointment, click here.

University Learning Center - The CAS Learning Center offers free peer tutoring for Writing the Essay. Click here for more information. 

Is English your second language? The American Language Institute (ALI) through SCPS is a great resource providing English language instruction and evaluation. Click here for more information.

Proofreading Clinics - Writing involves strong proofreading skills too! Attend one of these free sessions to learn valuable proofreading strategies. Students are expected to bring a draft of their own writing. Tuesday's, 5pm ULC @UHALL. 

Don't be shy! Tackle that writer's block, brush up on your writing skills, or learn more about your writing style by using one of these services. You won't just need these skills during your undergraduate career but during your career as a health care professional too!

Best of luck writing all those papers this semester! 

For more information contact nursingadvising@nyu.edu.