Breathing Life into the Syllabus: The Collaborative Development of a First-Year Writing Course for Nursing Students

In this essay, we tell the story of how a team of English and nursing professors came together to develop curriculum for a mandatory first-semester writing course in the collaborative Bachelor of Science, Nursing (BScN) at Fanshawe College and Western University, both in London, Ontario. The discuss...

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Main Authors: Mark Feltham, Mary Anne Krahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2016-06-01
Series:Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching
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Online Access:https://celt.uwindsor.ca/index.php/CELT/article/view/4444
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description In this essay, we tell the story of how a team of English and nursing professors came together to develop curriculum for a mandatory first-semester writing course in the collaborative Bachelor of Science, Nursing (BScN) at Fanshawe College and Western University, both in London, Ontario. The discussion focuses on the implementation of the course at the Fanshawe site. Following a review of literature that has informed our thinking about writing in nursing, we discuss how the team, consisting of both English/writing and nursing faculty, solved curriculum problems to develop an effective course. We also look forward to areas for future development.
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