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It's been about 5 years now since I've been out of the academic world. Now, I'm prepping to go to NP school in the next few weeks. What do you guys recommend as a way to help with grammar and language useage in writing papers, proofreading, and works cited. I've been recommend grammarly by a non-nursing colleague. Thoughts or opinions?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I use grammarly in my DNP program. It's fairly straighforward. I also like PERLA for citations and formatting.

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That is almost precisely what I typed and lost. I agree with you. Grammarly catches a lot of the flubs I miss in word. It's very persnickety with passive writing (my weakness, apparently).

Perla is great to help in formatting and keeping up with references.

I suspect your school's library will have some of these resources.

Congratulations on this journey and good luck! Keep us posted.

Where is your program?

Have your preceptors lined up?

Thanks! I'm going to Duke. Clinical placement coordinators will find preceptors for me.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
That is almost precisely what I typed and lost. I agree with you. Grammarly catches a lot of the flubs I miss in word. It's very persnickety with passive writing (my weakness, apparently).

Perla is great to help in formatting and keeping up with references.

I suspect your school's library will have some of these resources.

Congratulations on this journey and good luck! Keep us posted.

Where is your program?

Have your preceptors lined up?

OMG! The 'passive voice' thing - I thought it was just me! How i wish I could turn that puppy OFF! (I completely ignore every 'passive voice' warning.)

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PERLA is superb. Couldn't live without it. There are lots of proofreading sites out there that also scan for plagiarism. It's always good to run things through those. Grammarly is great.

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It's been about 5 years now since I've been out of the academic world. Now, I'm prepping to go to NP school in the next few weeks. What do you guys recommend as a way to help with grammar and language useage in writing papers, proofreading, and works cited. I've been recommend grammarly by a non-nursing colleague. Thoughts or opinions?

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Great question, OBigdog. I used PERRLA for my undergrad and loved that it kept a database for all of my previously used references. Worth every penny. I will be looking into Grammarly as well!

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PERLA! Life saver. I learned something new, I never heard of grammarly I will check it out. I also like a website called citefast, it is very helpful looking up things and it tells you how to cite and when. Don't forget, if you are in a database like EBSCO, many times there will be a tab that will have the citation already formatted in APA.

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