Well I was doing some research and came across several articles that addressed different aspects of writing articles and papers.  I thought these could be of interest to you as you are writing papers for classes or attempting to submit something to a journal for publication.  The citation are below and if you were to copy and past the title of the articles into CINAHL or PubMed the article is available in the library collection.  

Baker, J. (2012). The seven rs of supporting opinion and avoiding plagiarism. AORN Journal, 96(5), 465-468.

Costello, J. (2012). Publish or perish: Getting yourself published. British Journal Of Cardiac Nursing, 7(11), 549-551.

Happell, B. (2012). A practical guide to writing clinical articles for publication. Nursing Older People, 24(3), 30-34.

Leggett, T., & Jackowski, M. (2012). WRITING & RESEARCH. Developing and Narrowing a Topic. Radiologic Technology, 83(4), 405-410.

Kable, A. K., Pich, J., & Maslin-Prothero, S. E. (2012). A structured approach to documenting a search strategy for publication: A 12 step guideline for authors. Nurse Education Today, 32(8), 878-886.

Hagger, M. S. (2012). How to Get Your Article Rejected. Stress & Health: Journal Of The International Society For The Investigation Of Stress, 28(4), 265-268.

Gazza, E. A., & Hunker, D. F. (2012). Facilitating Scholarly Writer Development: The Writing Scaffold. Nursing Forum, 47(4), 278-285.