Scientific Writing Flashcards
(12 cards)
Drafting an outline
5 points
- connect
- order
- gaps
- evidence
- ways of thinking
Structure of Scientific Paper/ Presentation/ Knowledge Summary
10 marks
- Scientific q
- Known/ unknown
- Form problem
- Hypothesis
- Project plan
- Experiment and collate data
- Analyse results
- interpret and conclude
- New knowledge
- New qs
Introduction Overview
- Problem scientifically credible
- Is it relevant to q
- strong and logical background
- pico stated clearly
Critically review paper - introduction
- present different/ competing views
- compare and contrast relationship
- criticise multiple papers at same time
- critical stance w coherent argument w cited evidence
- interpret and summarise understanding
Methods
- Study design
- Study protocol
*clear setting- inclusion/ exclusion criteria
- clear selection criteria
- sample size
- control features, exposed/ tx groups
Results - Quality
Key findings
+ve/-ve results
Introduce and organise results
Differences, relationships, magnitude
Results - Overview
Assess results before
Participants
Measures used
Descriptive data for participants
Measurement of variables
Discussion - Overview
Start w main findings
Results relevant to knowledge
Results discussed in context
Others work discussed
ID gaps in knowledge
Strengths/ limitations
Conclusion
Thesis
Summarise main ideas
Recommend/ predict/ solution
Abstract
Last
Main sentence from each section
Order to summarise paper
Info agrees w what was written in rest of paper
Acronyms
- Abbreviations for phrases used 3 or more times
Presentation Acronym
P = plan
R = reduce text
E = elucidate
S = summarise
E = effective
N = note limitations
T = transform thinking
