As your EBP skills grow, you may be called upon to share your expertise with others. While EBP practice is often conducted with unique outcomes in mind, EBP practitioners who share their results can both add to the general body of knowledge and serve as an advocate for the application of EBP.In this Discussion, you will explore strategies for disseminating EBP within your organization, community, or industry.To Prepare:Review the Resources and reflect on the various strategies presented throughout the course that may be helpful in disseminating effective and widely cited EBP.This may include: unit-level or organizational-level presentations, poster presentations, and podium presentations at organizational, local, regional, state, and national levels, as well as publication in peer-reviewed journals.Reflect on which type of dissemination strategy you might use to communicate EBP.By Day 3 of Week 10Post at least two dissemination strategies you would be most inclined to use and explain why. Explain which dissemination strategies you would be least inclined to use and explain why. Identify at least two barriers you might encounter when using the dissemination strategies you are most inclined to use. Be specific and provide examples. Explain how you might overcome the barriers you identified.By Day 6 of Week 10Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by offering additional ideas to overcome the barriers to strategies suggested by your colleagues and/or by offering additional ideas to facilitate dissemination.3-5 SENTENCES EACH WITH AT LEAST 2 REPLIES EACH

1. Gathering More Information Write a document to Techniks managers E. F. Black and J. St. Cloud that will be attached to an email message that explains your situation and need for information. Maggie pokes her head into your office at 2 p.m. and asks, "How are you coming?" You explain the fact that you are waiting to hear back from Techniks and show her the email attachment you sent. "Well, I was hoping to have a rundown of all of these folks by tonight so we could maybe have all of the information we gather in some sort of decipherable table before tomorrow morning's meeting. I won’t really be able to read long memos during the meeting, so give me the information in a format that is easy to digest so I can present it in a coherent fashion to our group. But if you don't hear back from these folks by 5, why don't we just scratch them off our list?" Luckily, you receive a phone call from James St. Cloud in New York at 4 P.M. Because he is between meetings and you are facing a deadline, the conversation is brief but cordial. You are convinced, based on his genuine enthusiasm on the phone, that St. Cloud is indeed interested in the potential for teamwork on this project. St. Cloud gives you the following information: ? His firm was established in 1984 and employs 22 full-time engineers; 20 architects (five of whom are contract employees who come on for specific projects); seven city planning/participation experts; and six management staff with professional backgrounds in engineering, architecture, and city planning. ? St. Cloud believes that the firm's specialties lie in downtown development and urban planning. He cited several successful redesign projects in cities like Stratford, Ontario; Vancouver; Park City, Utah; and Reno, Nevada. ? Techniks has successfully teamed up with a wide variety of firms on different projects including numerous public walkways and three suspension bridge projects. St. Cloud noted that several engineers employed with Techniks had a "moderate to considerable" experience with suspension techniques. In fact, he noted, one employee had been called in by the Kansas City Star to consult on the failure of the Hyatt Regency suspension walkway in 1981. ? If Lowe & Company is interested in meeting to discuss a team approach, Techniks could send representatives no sooner than late next week, because the firm is tightly booked at the moment with pressing jobs.  Your general sense from the phone conversation is that St. Cloud is amiable and interested in the project. However, your concerns are twofold. First, you worry that such a large firm could easily "swallow" Lowe & Company in a project such as this. While you need their expertise, Lowe & Company cannot afford to lose the high-profile potential for this job. Therefore, Lowe & Company needs to team up with an organization willing to share responsibility. You cannot discern from your brief conversation with St. Cloud whether this is possible with Techniks. Second, Techniks seems to be established or at least in particularly high demand at the moment. You worry a little about the firm's availability. 2. Summary Task Write a memo to Maggie Lowe detailing the information you gained from James St. Cloud as well as your assessment of the phone conversation. Because Maggie has told you she wants to draw this information together in some sort of readable format such as a table for the morning's meeting, pay special attention to designing the memo so that she may easily extract the particulars and details during the meeting without having to read a great deal of text. 3. Formal Correspondence After a discussion at your morning meeting, Lowe & Company employees agree that the best plan, at least tentatively, is to pursue the team approach with one of the firms you and your colleagues have contacted. Bids for the city project are due in City Hall in three weeks. Maggie has agreed to fly James St. Cloud and an associate to Milwaukee to discuss the partnership further. Write a letter to Techniks (attn: James St. Cloud, Manager) explaining the importance of a face-to-face meeting and the urgency of the impending deadline. Explain the offer to fly St. Cloud and an associate to Milwaukee. You may make up street addresses for your formal correspondence, though do be mindful as to the cities in which the firms are located.

Directions:Step 1: Please read the information below on paraphrasing vs quoting. This week, we have read a few articles. Later in the unit, we may use these articles as we write our own reflections and essays. Once you understand the ideas you are reading, you need to account for them in your own writing. Here is how: SummarizingSummarizing is the tool in writing which is used when you need the main idea of the text. It is a condensed form of the written text in your own words with only the highlights of the text. A summary is much shorter than the original text. It excludes the explanation of the text. Only the main idea or the basic information is included.Summarizing is used to refer to work that culminates into the present writing that you are doing. It is sometimes used when you want to draw attention to an important point. It is also applicable when you want to distance yourself from the original text.Summarizing is used:When only the main ideas of the writer are to be identified.When only an overview of the whole work is required.When simplification is required.When only the main highlights of the work have to be mentioned.ParaphrasingTo paraphrase means to translate someone else’s ideas into your own words. Thus, with a paraphrase, you are still citing someone else’s ideas in your writing, and this is a critical aspect of academic writing. The benefit of paraphrasing is that you keep control over the writing in your essay. Now, I’m not a control freak or anything, but remember that your essay is just that—your essay. Not Jane's or Jack's or anyone else’s. Those people, most likely, have published many things before. This is your chance to share your opinion and develop your critical perspective.And even if you’re not entirely interested in developing a critical perspective, paraphrasing helps you maintain the focus of your essay. By definition, paraphrasing involves shortening—cutting words that are not relevant to your point at hand. That is a powerful thing as a writer. You are still citing the ideas of someone else, but there is editorial judgement involved, because you must make decisions about what must stay and what can go. Paraphrasing is an important tool for academic writers because it allows you to get rid of the ideas not immediately relevant to your point at hand, but keep the ideas that are. This editorial judgement, however, should be done in an ethical way, meaning that you accurately present the original writer’s ideas and do not make them sound different than they actually are.Summary:1.Paraphrasing is writing any particular text in your own words while summarizing is mentioning only the main points of any work in your own words.2.Paraphrasing is almost equal to or somewhat less than the original text while summarizing is substantially shorter than the original.3.Paraphrasing may be done for the purpose of simplifying the original work while summarizing is done to mention only the major points without any kind of explanation about the matter.Quotation vs. ParaphraseIf someone’s ideas but not his/her exact words are important to your point, you should paraphrase rather than quote. A paraphrase should not change the ideas but it can eliminate or change words, often in order to condense a long sentence that contains details unnecessary to your point.Quotation: In the short story “Thanks for the Ride,” Arnold Friend threatens Connie, the protagonist, by saying: “You come out here like a nice lady and give me your hand, and nobody else gets hurt, I mean your nice bald-headed daddy and your mummy and your sister in her high heels” (3).Paraphrase: In the short story “Thanks for the Ride,” Arnold Friend warns Connie, the protagonist, that he will hurt her mother, father and sister if she doesn’t do what he wants.Guidelines for selecting a quotation:Before you decide to use a quotation, ask yourself this question: Why am I using this passage? If you answer one of the following statements in the affirmative, you should use a direct quotation, not a paraphrase:I am quoting this passage because the author’s words are so impressive or so clever that to put them in my own words would lessen their impact.I am quoting this passage because the author’s words are so precise that to put them in my own words would change their meaning.I am quoting this passage because the author’s words are so concise that I would need twice as many words to paraphrase this passage.If you answer “No” to those questions, you should paraphrase.Now that you understand the distinction between summaries, quotations, and paraphrases, you are well on your way to writing from readings, or writing academically. The important idea from this section to remember is that academic writing does not happen in a vacuum or on an island (to mix metaphors). It is always in response to some kind of text or idea. Thus, it is critical that academic writers (i.e. students, YOU) cite those ideas in their own writing, using direct quotations and paraphrases, and then respond to those ideas. This process is known as an “academic conversation.”Step 2:In a short journal (3-5 sentences), tell me what you understand about the difference between paraphrasing and quoting. Submission Instructions:Follow these steps:Click on “Submit Assignment.”There is no file to submit. Just type directly into the text box.Click Submit!Grading:By answering the prompt below in at least 3-5 sentences and submitting your homework to Canvas, you will receive a “Complete” for this assignment.