Academic Guides: Writing Resources for HINF 6100: Introduction to Health Informatics: Writing Resources for HINF 6100: Introduction to Health Informatics

HINF 6100 Assignment Style Guide

Discussion posts: Composing discussion posts and responses is one of your most common writing tasks at Walden. Take a look at the Writing Center's guidance on successful discussion board writing.

Applications: You will write several application papers in this course. One useful shortcut for writing these papers is to download and use a preformatted template, which contains APA-compliant headers, spacing, and page numbering. This is a huge time-saver, and you'll be able to get more quickly to the work of research, writing, and organizing your ideas.

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Formatting

Use the APA course paper template to help with your formatting
Trouble with Microsoft Word? See the Academic Skills Center's resources here

Scholarly Tone

Be mindful of your point of view in scholarly writing
Avoid bias in your discussion posts and papers

Organization and Cohesion

Include an introduction and conclusion for each paper
Try outlining to help organize the flow of ideas in your papers
Strengthen your paragraphs by using topic sentences and the MEAL plan
Incorporate evidence seamlessly in your papers by introducing, integrating, and explaining it

Writing Resources for HINF 6100: Introduction to Health Informatics:
Writing Resources for HINF 6100: Introduction to Health Informatics

HINF 6100 Assignment Style Guide

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