I-Corps: Wrangler - for rounding up research writing resources

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提高没有经验的研究作者的机会？通过使用自定进度，基于网络的研究写作软件，在整个写作过程中提供按需指导，实践和反馈的书面科学传播。如果成功商业化，这项技术可以改变教育和专业领域对待研究写作过程的方式，并理解学科写作惯例。因此，该技术有助于提高个别研究项目的研究竞争力。此外，最先进的写作资源的可用性将有助于通过加强研究成果的公众传播来促进科学。参与NSF I-Corps项目也为研究生提供了一个培养创业和创新技能的好机会，这可能会导致创业，从而提高国家的经济竞争力。这个I-Corps项目调查了这项技术的商业潜力，它引导用户通过一系列互动的教学视频，帮助用户成为批判性读者，了解语言是如何在特定学科的研究写作中使用的，从而成为更好的研究作者。用户将他们的语言使用新知识整合到来自应用语言学领域的实践工具中。这些工具帮助用户分析和发现用于有效构建科学论证的语言使用模式。然后自动反馈引导用户进行更有目的的写作分析。研究表明，这些工具可以提高用户的？如何构建一个原创的研究论点，同时提高他们的自我效能，成为成功的发表研究作者的意识。此外，这些工具帮助用户成为更独立的作家，要求用户从需要额外时间专注于自己的研究议程的研究导师那里寻求更少的写作指导。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 opportunity to enhance inexperienced research writers? written science communication by using a self-paced, web-based research writing software that provides on demand instruction, practice, and feedback throughout the writing process. If successfully commercialized, the technology can transform how both educational and professional spheres approach the research writing process and understand disciplinary writing conventions. Hence, the technology can contribute to an increase in the research competitiveness of individual research programs. In addition, the availability of state-of-the-art writing resources will help promote science by enhancing the public dissemination of research results. Participation in the NSF I-Corps program also offers a great opportunity for graduate students to develop skills in entrepreneurship and innovation, which may lead to a start-up venture that can increase the economic competitiveness of the state. This I-Corps project investigates the commercial potential of the technology, which leads users through a series of interactive, instructional videos that help users become critical readers of how language is used in discipline-specific, research writing in order to become better research writers. Users integrate their new knowledge of language use into practice tools derived from the field of applied linguistics. These tools help users analyze and discover language use patterns that are used to effectively structure a scientific argument. Automated feedback then guides users toward more purposeful analysis of writing. Studies have demonstrated that these tools can heighten user?s awareness of how to construct an original research argument while increasing their self-efficacy in becoming successful published research writers. Furthermore, the tools have helped users become more independent writers, requiring users to seek less guidance about writing from research mentors who need the extra time to focus on their own research agendas.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.