Develop a dissemination plan for your research.

Develop a dissemination plan for your research.

Develop a dissemination plan for your research.

Assignment Content

This assignment is designed to help you understand how to make your research usable and available to other people in your field.

Develop a dissemination plan for your research. Your plan should include discussion about the following:

Audience

Who is most likely to use this research?

What is the practice setting?

End-user needs

How should you present data to make it most usable?

Is there specific language should you use to ensure your audience understands your purpose?

Does the target audience have a specific type of need based on practice setting? Publications

What specific journals, newsletters, or publications would would you want to publish in to reach your audience?

Presentations at local, state, and national levels What conferences, meetings, or panels would you want to present at to make sure your ideas were readily available in the field?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.