Objectives This systematic review was designed to assess the importance of academic
literacy for undergraduate nursing students and its relationship to future professional clinical …

Background Universities enroll students from diverse backgrounds every year, with 300
million students expected in higher education by 2025. However, with widening …

Retention and the academic success of nursing students remains a high priority in
Australian and global higher education. This study examines an embedded academic …

ABSTRACT For Academic Literacies, the world is textually mediated; written texts and what
informs them reveal elements such as subject-discipline practices. Furthermore, multi …

Background Academic failure in undergraduate nursing education programs is a growing
concern globally. While some students choose to continue with their nursing course by …

Background: Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students are at increased risk for
attrition from prelicensure nursing programs. The literature clearly describes the struggles of …

Graduate entry nursing (GEN) programs were designed to address the predicted nursing
shortfall. In Australia, although these programs attract students from culturally and …

This paper reports findings from the second stage of a mixed-methods study of embedded
academic literacies and diagnostic assessment-specifically first-year nursing students' …

Abstract Learning Advisors (LAs) are uniquely well-placed to discover what lies behind
students' difficulties with reading and writing for their discipline subjects, and these insights …

Embedding academic literacies in higher education courses has been a major focus of the
work of learning advisers. A number of studies present the results of embedding in specific …