I-Corps: Responsive Writing Solutions

该项目旨在通过提供培训、支持和反馈，帮助组织和个人节省时间和金钱。“意想不到的作家是那些科学家，IT专家，工程师和其他人，他们的主要活动涉及技术专业，但他们花了不成比例的时间写作，有时效率低下。组织经常根据正确性对写作问题进行分类。通过最初的客户发现，这个I-Corps团队了解到，潜在客户会对一个软件解决方案感兴趣，该解决方案提供了对关键任务文档的及时帮助;该软件将解决许多组织的痛点，并节省大量资源，无论他们是营利性的，非营利的，政府的，还是学术的。特别是，如果在做出良好的结构选择方面得到帮助，作家可以花更少的时间写作，并提供更好的结果。拟议的产品将大大减轻，如果不是消除，潜在客户中发现的许多痛点。没有受过专业写作训练的技术专家需要更长的时间来完成写作任务，并经常产生质量低下和/或不稳定的文件，使其组织和他们自己花费大量的时间和金钱。该项目的系统是在与潜在客户密切协商的基础上建立的，它使技术专家能够在写作任务上花费更少的时间（通过及时指导和其他工具，将他们的文本与组织指南结合起来），从而将更多的时间花在他们的科学工作上。这将提高生产力和效率，帮助组织更好地完成其使命，并增加组织的有用的、结构上有意义的和可重用的内容。

This project aims to help organizations and individuals save time and money by providing training, support, and feedback to "unexpected writers." Unexpected writers are those scientists, IT specialists, engineers and others whose primary activity involves a technical specialty but who spend disproportionate amounts of their time writing, sometimes ineffectively. Organizations often categorize the writing problem in terms of correctness. Through initial customer discovery, this I-Corps team learned that potential customers would be interested in a software solution that provides just-in-time help with mission-critical documents; this software would address pain points and save significant resources for many organizations, whether they be for-profit, non-profit, governmental, or academic. In particular, writers could spend less time writing and provide better results if given help in making good structural choices.The proposed product will significantly mitigate, if not eliminate, the many pain points identified among potential customers. Technical specialists who are not trained professional writers take longer to perform writing tasks and frequently produce documents of low and/or erratic quality, costing their organizations and themselves significant time and money. This project's system, built in close consultation with potential customers, allows technical specialists to spend less time on their writing tasks (by just-in-time guidance and other tools that will bind their texts to organizational guidelines) and thus spend more time on their scientific work. This will improve productivity and efficiency, help organizations better fulfill their mission, and increase organizations' useful, structurally meaningful and reusable content.