Back to Agenda
Session 5B: Communicating Quantitative Research Effectively
Session Chair(s)
Darryl L'Heureux, PhD, MPharm, MSc
Director, Clinical Science, Medical Writing, and Publications
Ambrx, Inc, United States
Writing about quantitative research findings is an important tool in the repertoire of medical writers. Despite this need, few people are formally trained to write about numbers. Communications specialists learn to write for varied audiences, but rarely are taught specifically to deal with numbers. Scientists and others who routinely work with statistics learn to calculate and interpret the findings, but rarely are taught to describe them in ways that are easy to grasp for audiences that are not trained in statistics. This workshop will introduce ways to bridge the gap between correct statistical analysis and good expository writing to communicate quantitative research results clearly to patients, medical providers, or other non-scientific audiences.
Learning Objective : At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:- Determine key elements of communicating numeric information, including topic, context, and units
- Describe important attributes of sentences that use numbers as evidence to address a research question
- Identify ways of organizing data in tables and charts to support the associated prose description of a numeric result or pattern
Speaker(s)
Speaker
Jane Miller, PhD
Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, United States
Professor
Have an account?