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Grant Unit Day 2: Research

Dr. Will Kurlinkus
University of Oklahoma
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Design Brief
Take ten minutes to put everything together.
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Grant
Peer Review: 3.5, Final: 3.12

 [Required Sections]: (All Pages Are Single-Spaced)

1. Formal Cover Page and Table of Contents (1 Page Each)

2. Abstract/Executive Summary (1 Paragraph)

3. Project Description
 Statement of Need/Problem Description (1-2 Pages: Four sources
required)
 Goals and Objectives: (1 Page of Bulleted Descriptions + 1-Page
Logic Model)
 Plan of Work (2-3 Pages: Four other quoted sources required)
 Project Evaluation/Deliverables (1 Page)
 Budget and Justification: The prices matter much less than the
descriptions (1 Page)
 Timeline (1 Page)
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MidTerm: Due 3.14

 Typed up in a well-designed, scannable, probably canva

template.
 3 or more stakeholder interviews (stakeholders must come from
uniquely different expertise communities)
 Prepared list of interview questions each was asked. It’s ok to go
off course, but plan to ask your questions in the way we discussed
on the design research methods day.
 2 site observations
 2 design research methods incorporated somewhere
 Summary of findings that is quote driven.
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Read Through Sample Statement of

Need
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1. What are the causes of this

problem? This is always an
ecology. Map it out. Who are the
multiple players?
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2. What facts, statistics, quotes, and

stories do you need to use to prove
this is a problem?
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3. Kairos: How can you prove this is

a problem right now? What's the
immediate exigence? Is there
something in the news? Did
something recent happen? Why
now?
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4. This—Not That: What's the scope

of your project/argument? What's
the small piece of your need that
this project will fund? Local?
Timely? Able to be solved by you
and your team?
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5. Research: What are three other

researchers/organizations doing to solve your
problem? How can you learn from them? Where are
their gaps? Why is your project different?
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6. Why should your specific funder care? Use

language from their mission/website/etc. What is
your organizations ethos/identity?
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7. Preface your solution: Again, think small scale,

unique, feasible (money, personpower, time, easier
solutions, status quo bias)
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What types of research does
your grant need?
How do you prove you’re well-researched?
Where do you find this info?
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Pre-Existing Research

 3 basic grant research goals:  In this project you will refer to

1. Prove this is a problem.
(quote, paraphrase, and cite)
2. Prove you’re not doing what
someone else has already done. at least 4 sources in your
3. Prove you know what you’re statement of need.
talking about and that your
solution is feasible.
4. Prove your project will be a
success before it is a success.
 In this project you will analyze at
 Who else has done research on a least Four other sources,
similar problem?
providing a detailed description
 What are the pros and cons of this and pros and cons of each both
other research? during your statement of need
and proposal.
 What are you contributing uniquely?
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Searching for Sources

1. Make a list of your research questions.

2. Perform a basic Google search to find statistics and

numbers that prove your problem.
Two Places Who
3. Find other researchers who are already addressing Get Shout Outs
your problem: for Recruiting
 Use Google Scholar. • University of
 Search through people already awarded money by Maryland
your granting institution or other granting institutions • Ohio State
that specialize in your problem. University
 Search for organizations that specialize in your
problem.
 Use a basic Google news search to find the most recent
info on the topic.
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Quoting, Paraphrasing, and
Summarizing
 Quoting: Using the authors actual words in quotation marks.
 Use three ellipses … to indicate removed language in a sentence.
 Use four ellipses .... To indcate that you took away more than one sentence.
 Use brackets [to indicate you’ve added your own words to the quote]
 All numbers and statistics should be cited. You don’t need quotation marks unless you
borrow words but you always need to show your reader where the numbers came from.

 Summarizing: Putting the main ideas in your own words, reducing long passages to
shorter ones. Still involves referring to the drawn upon text.
 Both quotes and summaries need to introduce who did the research (name, occupation,
affiliation, year).

 Intro and Outro: Quotes should never stand alone, always use your own words to
introduce them. But also use your own words to describe what they mean after you give
the quote. That is, give an outro.

 To punctuate quotes correctly you usually introduce them with a comma (if what comes
before the quote is an incomplete sentence) or colon (if both the quote and introducing
sentence are complete). Remember that at the end of your quote your punctuation
should usually come before the closing quote. Always use double quotes.
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Sample Quote Styles
 Quote (notice the intro punctuation): If, as Buchanan (2001) and DiSalvo et al. (2012) observe, design is
fundamentally rhetorical because “all products—digital and analog, tangible and intangible—are vivid arguments
about how we should lead our lives,” then nostalgic designs are arguments about how users should relate to the past
(Buchanan, p. 194).

 Quote using colon: Responding to such cultural observations, nostalgia research has become scientific again,
focusing on the emotion’s homeostatic function. That is, as Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt, and Routledge (2006) have
tested, when life changing events happen (from getting a divorce to being fired) people look back to known times
and positive identities therein: “Those in the nostalgia condition reported less attachment anxiety and avoidance,
higher self-esteem, and more positive affect. . . . when people encounter self-threats, rather than countering directly
the specific threat, they have the option of eliminating its effects by affirming essential, positive aspects of the self”
(p. 989).

 Summary: Like so much social media, On This Day trades in what Sedikides calls “anticipatory nostalgia,” thinking of
events in the now as an opportunity to build nostalgic-to-be memories.

 Quote: From social media memories to confederate Civil War memorials, I call this conflict over nostalgia a nostalgic
contact zone, after post-colonial theorist Mary Louise Pratt’s (1991) “contact zones,” “social spaces where cultures
meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as
colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today” (p. 34). Practiced
nostalgic designers learn from the inevitable clashes, layers, and unequal powers present in such spaces.

 Summary: In this light, though features like On This Day may have a slightly insidious weight, they also further what
Nora (2002) calls the “democratization of history.” For so long historical work lay in the hands of an elite group of
historians who decided what was worth recording and what was not to the exclusion of minority cultures and
memories. In the 20th century, with the rise of memory studies, and now in the 21st, with the rise of social media,
everyone is a historian.

 Stand Alone Quote: Cultural theorist Harmut Rosa (2015) argues that such a desire for interactive craft experiences is
compounded by modern “social acceleration.” “As late as 1964, the American magazine Life, warned of an imminent
massive overflow of free time in modern society,” Rosa describes, but “the ‘tempo of life’ has increased, and with it
stress, hecticness. . . . We don’t have any time although we’ve gained far more than we needed before” (p. xxxv).