Team ECoS

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是改变技术作者和研究团队编写和编辑技术文档的方式，包括数据传播报告、研究提案和期刊论文。新的工具集将确保技术和科学团队的快速培训、高质量和高水平的创新。在软件中实现的方法将针对广泛的用户，从经验丰富的技术编写团队到新兴的单独从业者；该系统内的培训材料将有利于所有寻求开发更有效的写作方法的学生和年轻技术作家。按照市场规模的顺序，市场细分分为：1)大型企业和公司，2)学术界和教育机构，3)政府机构，4)个人，5)小型企业。商业化将需要确保与市场营销人员、大学人员、学术期刊和行业专业人员的合作伙伴关系，以及进行案例研究和客户发现，以量化产品如何节省团队时间，减轻压力，并为人员提供培训材料。由此产生的产品将有助于为其他大学和行业中各种规模的团队开发强大的专业手稿。这个I-Corps项目旨在简化和自动化技术写作的一些关键障碍，从而培养一个时间效率高的写作和编辑环境。在当前的协作技术写作范例中，人员培训和缺乏经验是成功（就接受率而言）技术文档的两个最大障碍。采用新的写作和编辑工具集的团队将发现更容易培训新人员，以及协调各种不同写作风格和技巧的写作工作。高级研究人员将有更多的时间和资源专注于研究本身，由于该系统所允许的人才培养或指导的优化方法。随着时间的推移，这套工具集将发展成为一种方法论，可以扩展到任何写作学科，从科学和工程到法律或会计。该工具集诞生于学术技术写作团队的需求，他们每天都会生成学术文档。影响的量化取决于各个部门。现有的案例研究表明，提案提交的成功率提高了40%，写作效率提高了60%，而质量却没有下降（事实上，质量得到了提高，这表明提案被更成功地接受了）。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the transformation of the way technical writers and research teams write and edit technical documentation, including data dissemination reports, research proposals, and journal papers. The new toolset will ensure rapid training, high quality, and high levels of innovation in technical and scientific teams. The methodology, implemented in software, will target a broad spectrum of users, from seasoned technical writing teams to emerging solo practitioners; the training materials built into the system will be beneficial for all students and young technical writers who seek to develop more effective writing approaches. The market segmentation is broken into, in the order of market size: 1) large businesses and corporations, 2) academia and educational institutions, 3) government agencies, 4) individuals, and 5) small businesses. Commercialization will require securing partnerships with marketers, university personnel, scholarly journals, and industry professionals, as well as conducting case studies and customer discovery to quantify how the product saves teams time, reduces stress, and delivers training materials for personnel. The resulting product will facilitate the development of strong professional manuscripts for teams of all sizes at other universities and in the industry. This I-Corps project seeks to simplify and automate some of the critical obstacles to technical writing, thereby fostering a time-efficient writing and editing environment. In the current collaborative technical writing paradigm, personnel training and inexperience are two of the biggest obstacles to successful (in terms of acceptance rates) technical documentation. Teams that adopt the new writing and editing toolset will find it easier to train new personnel, as well as coordinate writing efforts across a variety of different writing styles and skills. Senior researchers will have more time and resources to focus on the research itself, due to the optimized method of personnel training or mentorship allowed by this system. Over time, the toolset will develop into a methodology that can be broadened to help with any writing discipline, from science and engineering to law or accounting. The toolset was born out of the needs of academic technical writing teams, which produce academic documentation daily. Quantification of impact is segment-dependent. Existing case studies show an improved success of proposal submissions by 40%, with a 60% increase in writing efficiency without loss of quality (in fact, with improved quality, as indicated by the greater success of proposal acceptance).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.