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Scientific paper summary is the process of generalizing the content of a complete study that has been published in peer reviewed scientific publications. The scientific paper summary describes the reader briefly about the research, helping them understand more about the focus of the article. Scientific paper abstracts are also common work for college students and research assistants. With a little practice, you can effectively read scientific papers to summarize, conceptualize, and perfect them.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Read the article

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   Read summary. This is a short paragraph written by the author to summarize his research. Abstracts appear in most scientific journals and usually do not exceed 100-200 words. This section summarizes the content of the article and presents main features of the study.
   • The summary's purpose is to help researchers quickly scan the content of a scientific journal and determine whether a particular article is applicable to their work. If you are synthesizing rodent immune response studies, in just 100 words, you will know if a study is in your industry, and the conclusions of that work support. different from the results of your research.
   • Remember that the article summary and the research summary are two different texts, so a summary similar to the abstract is a poor quality one. The summary has been so condensed that it cannot provide enough details about the work and the conclusions as a summary.

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   Understand the research context. Make sure you have a solid understanding of what the authors comment on or analyze, why the topic needs to be researched, whether this article was written in response to another article on the same topic, and so on. This way, you'll know which argument, quote, and data you need to choose from in your summary.

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   Go to conclusion. Read the conclusion before and determine the end point of the study. This way, you will learn more about your topic and understand where complex outlines and arguments lead. It is much easier to comprehend the information when you read the researchers' conclusions.
   • You still need to reread the whole article after you've read the conclusion, but only if the study is usable. If you are collecting research, particularly conflicting views, you may not need to find additional sources to back up your research.

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   Identify the main argument or stance of the article. Make sure you identify these points on the first read, if you want to avoid rereading the entire article a second time just to remind yourself of the main idea. Read while taking notes, highlighting or underlining key ideas.
   • Pay special attention to a few paragraphs at the beginning of the article. This is the part that the author will most likely state thesis for the whole article. Determine the thesis as well as the main points and ideas that the author is trying to prove through his research.
     • Words like hypothesis, result, particular, usually, common, normal or clearly will suggest your thesis statement.
   • Underline, highlight, or rewrite your main thesis behind the paper. Focus on this main idea so that you can connect the whole article to that point and understand the connection between them.
   • With the humanities, it can sometimes be quite difficult to find a clear, concise thesis in scientific papers, because research in this field is often around complex and abstract concepts (for example, class issues in postmodern poetry or feminist films). In this case, try to concretize the thesis as much as possible to understand the author's point of view and what they are trying to prove through their analysis.

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   Find your thesis. Continue reading through the sections of the article and highlight the main points for which the author's comment. Focus on key concepts and ideas outlined in the article, try to connect them with the main ideas mentioned by the author at the beginning of the article.
   • The different sections in a scientific paper are often marked by sub-headings, and they cover specific steps or developments in the research process. These headings are usually bold and have a larger font size than the rest of the article.
   • Note that scientific papers are often very dry. Do you really need to read a 500-word passage in the research that demonstrates the formulation of a glycerine solution used for individual frogs? It may be necessary, but chances are high is not. Usually you don't need to read every word of a scientific paper, once you have filtered the gist of the article and understood why it appeared.

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   Take notes while reading. Efficiency is the key to success in researching and gathering information from scientific papers. Read proactively when you seek information from your articles. Circle or highlight each section of the article, focusing on small headings.
   • These sections usually include the introduction, methodology, research findings and conclusions, as well as a list of references.
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Part 2 of 3: Draft ideas

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   Brief description of the research work. Write a quick draft description of the research process in the article, listing the first steps to the final results, clarifying the methodology and form of the research. You don't need to go into detail, that's the goal of the complete summary.
   • In the beginning, skip filtering and write down everything you remember from the article quickly. This will help you find the main point to summarize.

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   Identify the most important aspects of the article. You can call them the main ideas or parts that support the point. These sections can be identified through subheadings, but they can also be more difficult to find. You need to present in your summary all the key points that are used to support your point.
   • Depending on the study, you can describe the theoretical basis of the study or the researchers' hypotheses. In scientific essay writing, you need to clearly summarize the hypotheses made by researchers before conducting the research, as well as the procedures applied in research projects. Briefly summarize the statistical results obtained and a preliminary explanation of these figures in the summary.
   • For articles in the humanities industry, you should summarize the basic assumptions as well as the author's school of thinking, in addition to examples and ideas throughout the article.

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   Identify key words to include in your summary. Make sure the main keywords used in the article are included in the summary as well. You need to consider the full meaning of complex terms before drafting your summary, which will help readers understand the content of your article.
   • Mention and explain any words or terms created by the author in the summary.

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   Try to write a brief summary. The abstract doesn't have to be as long as the scientific article. This is a separate and concise description of the research project, in order to assist in the collection of the initial research or to assist in acquiring information in later stages of the research process.
   • As a general rule, you could dedicate one paragraph to each main idea and write 500-1000 words in total for the summary. Most abstracts will consist of a few short paragraphs summarizing each part of the article.
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Part 3 of 3: Writing summary

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   Don't use self-titled pronouns like me, you, us.

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   Keep your voice as neutral as possible. You are generalizing, not evaluating scientific papers.

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   Begin by identifying the research question. In the first part of the article, likely in the introduction, the author will mention the focus and objective of the study. This should also be the starting point of the summary. Describe the main thesis that the author wants to prove through your written research.
   • Scientific papers will often have an introduction that establishes the basis of an entire experiment or study and will not give much information to summarize. This section is followed by research questions and experimental methods, which are important items that influence the rest of the paper.

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   Refers to the methodology used by the authors. This section discusses the research tools and methods. In other words, you need to summarize how authors or researchers came to conclusions based on studies or data they directly gathered.
   • There is no need to include all details of the experimental method in the summary. The experimental method should be reduced to a simple idea to clarify how to solve the research question. Research results are usually processed data, sometimes together with raw data before processing. You just need to include processed data in the summary.

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   Describe the results. One of the most important parts of the abstract is the results the authors get from their work. Have they been successful and have achieved their research goals? What conclusions have been made? What are the consequences of the study described in the paper?
   • Make sure that the summary has addressed the research question, conclusions / results, and how those results will be achieved. These are important parts of the article and are indispensable in the summary.

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   Connect the main ideas presented in the articles. For some abstracts, you need to present a correlation between the ideas developed by the author in the article. The main objective of the summary is to generalize the reader the main points made by the author, so you need to analyze and explain these points with your own text. Supplement the missing ideas and hypotheses, clarify and summarize the research.
   • Sometimes this step is more important when you have to summarize articles in the humanities industry. For example, given the thoughtful arguments about the poet George Herbert's relationship with the gods, analyzing them with the following simple summary will benefit your essay: "Personality author Herbert turns out to comment on his daily life rhythm instead of his philosophies ".

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   Don't make your own conclusions. A summary should neither be an editorial nor present your own interpretations of the data, unless it is specifically required by the article. In general, the purpose of the summary is to generalize the author's point of view, not to include your own point of view.
   • This can be difficult for those who do not have much experience writing research articles, but remember to ignore your ego in the article.

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   Avoid quoting directly from scientific articles. Quotes are often used more often in college debate and are not too important to the abstract. Focus on writing about the author's point of view in his own words without losing the meaning or content of those opinions.

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   Use present single tense. Always use the present form tense when you mention the content of the scientific paper. This will help you maintain a grammar structure throughout your writing.

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    Read and revise the draft. Great articles are formed after the correction process. Compare the focus and content of the summary to see if they correspond to the article body. A good quality scientific paper summary will give the reader a brief overview of the work, which is important when they are looking for specific information on a given topic. advertisement