Exam 27: Disseminating Research Findings

A graduate student who has just submitted a trimmed-down version of the student's doctoral dissertation to a journal editor receives the following."Dear Ms. Smith: "We have received your manuscript and are returning it to you. Our journal's focus is exclusively quantitative research, and your manuscript uses a mixed methodology. Despite notable strengths of the quantitative portion, which contains cutting-edge information about medication errors and their correlates, our peer reviewers feel that you might be better served in seeking a venue that allowed both aspects of the study to be presented. The Nursing Journal of Mixed Methodologies springs to mind."Nonetheless, if you should wish to resubmit only the quantitative portion, essentially as it stands, we should be quite interested in returning it to the peer reviewers. "Please see the one accompanying suggestion for table insertion." What type of letter is it?

Prior to conducting a grounded theory study, in which 11 women undergoing radiation for breast cancer were interviewed multiple times, the researchers conducted a pilot study in which they interviewed three women every 2 weeks from the time radiation was planned until 4 weeks after it was completed. The purpose for the pilot study was to refine the interview instrument and to discover whether women would be willing to be interviewed this frequently about such a private topic. The pilot was not published separately, and the researcher wants to include information about instrument revisions that were influenced by the pilot phase. Where would this be included in the research report?

A master's student has just completed a thesis. Which of the following are considered dissemination of the results?