Integrate Readers into Your Research — from the Start!

Listen to this interview of Klaus Schmid, Professor of Software Engineering, Research Group Software Systems Engineering, University of Hildesheim, Germany. We talk about how research cultures influence and shape research outcomes. Klaus Schmid : "Research writing is an act of communication. This means, the writer is responsible for the mental model that the reader develops as a result of what the text provides. It is, of course, true that no writer can entirely predict the mental model being formed in any reader’s mind — and yet, it remains every writer’s responsibility to work toward influencing and steering that formation in a direction which will ultimately enable the picture in the reader’s mind to achieve high commensurability with the picture in the writer’s mind.”