Research teams are increasingly expected to share findings beyond academic journals, reaching the communities their work serves. But sharing research is not the same as making it accessible. A summary is not plain language just because it is shorter; many are still too complex. To be truly accessible and useful, research summaries should be readable, understandable, and designed for the people who use them.
Our custom plain language research summaries help research teams turn complex findings into clear, accurate, audience-focused materials that explain what was studied, what was found, and why it matters.
A shorter summary is not always a plain language summary
Plain language research summaries should be readable, understandable, actionable, and designed for the people who use them.
Why plain language research summaries matter
Support dissemination plans
Plain language summaries can help research teams share findings with people who can use them.
Share results with participants and partners
Summaries can help study participants, community partners, advisory boards, and other groups understand key findings.
Support translational science
Plain language summaries can help move findings into practice, programs, services, and community use.
How we can help
We create plain language research summaries for many research and dissemination needs.
Create summaries for your research needs
We can create plain language summaries for grant proposals, dissemination plans, community and partner updates, study participant results, advisory board meetings, research websites, reports, conferences, community events, and manuscripts.
Explain findings clearly
Our summaries can explain what the study was about, who took part, what researchers found, what the findings mean, why the findings matter, how the information may be used, and what questions still remain.
Support the full summary process
Our process may include reviewing your study materials, identifying key messages, drafting and organizing content using plain language best practices, designing summaries that are engaging and easy to understand, translating summaries into Spanish, and field testing with your intended audience when appropriate.