Scholarship

What is your primary area(s) of research and scholarship?

Describe your research interests and contributions to scholarship in your discipline.

Brainstorm

- What are the major themes or topics that best represent these interests?
- How have you contributed in these areas?
- Where does your research fit in the larger body of scholarship?
- How is your research conducted?
- What are your research goals?
- What is your strategy for reaching these goals?
- How do you determine if and how well you have met (or are meeting) these goals, i.e., how do you evaluate your progress?
- Who benefits from the research and work you are doing?
- What is the immediate and long-term significance of your research?

Identify Evidence

Provide evidence of your work that demonstrates your contributions. For publications, use full citations, include sponsoring organizations, or provide any other details relevant to your research interests and advancements.

- Publications or papers accepted for journal publication
- Conference papers
- Funded research projects (external and internal)
- Proposals

Explain the value

Since some readers of your portfolio may not share your level of expertise in your particular discipline, describe how your research fits into the "bigger picture" of scholarship. How does it contribute to solving a problem or addressing a particular need in such a way that someone outside of your discipline can understand and appreciate what you do and why you do it.

Present the Bottom Line

Summarize your research in one page, answering these basic “journalist” questions (adapted from video of Professor George M. Whitesides on communicating your research, below).

What is the problem?
Why are you trying to solve it?
How are you solving it?
What have you done?
Who cares?

See also American Chemical Society: Author University for helpful resources on publishing your research.

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