anyone know the "official" way to write a summary on a research paper? Due tomorrow morning Anyone know?

I don't think there is an official way. But steer clear of ebonics.

i'll try, but knowing my school ebonics is a recognized form of english

You could just take a pencil and scribble on a piece of paper, and since you're a URM@USF, get an A because you're disadvantaged.

Copy the way it's been done in a reputable journal like Nature and then if they mark you down on it you can say 'well thats the way THEY did it'.

 

Just state all the main points of your paper, with any caveats, and don't bring up any new points. Don't give the figures that support your points. The summary is the answer to the question you asked.

Just state all the main points of your paper, with any caveats, and don't bring up any new points. Don't give the figures that support your points. The summary is the answer to the question you asked.

 

I mean a summary of someone else's research paper

I don't know. I'm just the President. I'll have to ask my Presidential speech writer. :shrug: :scratch:

Is like a movie review and you have to give it a score out of *****?

Haha no, it was a bio lab homework assignment. "Write a summary of ______" and they gave us a research paper.

 

I didn't know if there was some official way, or if i was just supposed to do it how I felt it should be done.

Generally, the summary or abstract of a research report contains all the main points of the paper in a highly condenced and concise form. It provides a little background, the hypothesis(es), a little methods, main results and conclusions.

 

The summary (depending on the journal) is often limited to between 150 and 250 words, but should give the reader a good idea of the rationale for the study, how it was done, what was found and what it means.

 

If this was set as an assignment, I suspect they will want more than 250 words though. Nonetheless, the format and function remains the same. You might want to include a bit of evaluation also.

 

The best way to get a 'feel' for journal article abstracts is to do an online literature search through something like Medlab or Psychinfo, or visit the a journal homepage. Most of these sites provide abstracts. Read a few, and you'll get the idea.

that's the abstract.

Yes it is. But given the time constraints, and that the function (and therefore structure) of abstracts and summaries are more or less the same, it's as good a place to start as any.

Originally posted by blike

anyone know the "official" way to write a summary on a research paper? Due tomorrow morning Anyone know?

 

It's now how you write the summary, it's how unique and interesting is the subject. Teachers are tired of reading same crap every year.

Well since there's new research every year and I doubt people would do older articles the teachers probably don't see all too many of the same reports.

Just sum everything you ream up and write it as simple as that