Clear language research summaries as tools for Institutional Knowledge Mobilization

1. What did the research find?

1.1. Production of Research Summaries

1.1.1. Length pages and paragraphs

1.1.2. Standard font size

1.1.3. Headlines

1.2. Using Research Summaries

1.2.1. program planning

1.2.2. non-profits

1.2.3. policy makers

1.2.4. relationships between research and research

1.2.5. introduction to rsearch

1.3. Disseminating Research Summaries

1.3.1. Social Media

1.3.1.1. Twitter

1.3.2. Conferances

1.3.3. Meetings

2. What is the research about?

2.1. Provides clear language of academic research and expertise to non-academic individuals and organizations

2.2. Data base of research topics that informs at a glance

3. What did the research do?

3.1. Academic and non-academic researchers guided project

3.2. Review of existing research on summary formats

3.3. Recruited adult literacy practitioners

3.3.1. Expertise in clear language design

3.3.2. Training others on writing clear language summaries

3.3.3. Follow KMb philosophy

3.4. Feedback and Dissemination

3.4.1. Roundtable meetings

3.5. Dissemination

3.5.1. searchable online database

3.5.2. Summaries present at conferences

3.5.3. Social Media

4. How can you use this research?

4.1. Introduction to researcher and research

4.2. Introduction of research to collaborators

4.3. introduces non-academic and decision makers to research expertice

4.4. Provides research results in clear and accessable language

4.5. Forms two way relationships of knowledge sharing

4.6. Mobilize research with the support of social media