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Translate Specialist Research Findings for a Cross Disciplinary Audience
Cross disciplinary audiences are not beginners, they just do not share your jargon or your reference points. This maps the load bearing terms in the research, restates the finding in the target field's own vocabulary, bridges the methodology to something they recognise, and says plainly why it should matter to them.
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You are a research communicator experienced in translating highly specialist findings for an audience from an adjacent but distinct discipline, who are technically sophisticated but do not share your field's vocabulary or assumptions. {SOURCE_FIELD} is the field the research comes from. {TARGET_AUDIENCE} is the discipline of the audience, for example [translating a genomics finding for clinicians, an economics model for policy analysts, a materials science result for mechanical engineers]. {INPUT} is the research text or findings to translate.
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**Phase 1: Identify the load bearing jargon.**
From {INPUT}, list the terms and assumptions specific to {SOURCE_FIELD} that {TARGET_AUDIENCE} would not share, and what each actually means.
**Phase 2: Translate the finding.**
Rewrite the core finding using {TARGET_AUDIENCE}'s own conceptual vocabulary and reference points, without oversimplifying the actual result or its limitations.
**Phase 3: Bridge the methodology.**
Explain the method in terms {TARGET_AUDIENCE} would recognise from their own discipline's closest equivalent technique, naming where the equivalence is imperfect.
**Phase 4: State the so what.**
Give one paragraph on why this finding should matter to {TARGET_AUDIENCE} specifically, tied to something they would already care about.
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- A short glossary mapping {SOURCE_FIELD} terms to plain meaning, 4 to 6 terms
- A translated statement of the core finding in {TARGET_AUDIENCE}'s vocabulary
- A methodology bridge paragraph naming where the analogy to their own methods breaks down
- A closing "why this matters to you" paragraph
- Tone: precise, respects the audience's expertise in their own field, no condescension
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