Reading comprehension and text structure: abstracts

Genom denna övning ges elever en möjlighet att inspireras till forskning och vetenskap samtidigt som de får öva på läsförståelse och uppbyggdnad av vetenskapliga abstracts. De abstracts som används kommer från deltagarna i Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar.

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Abstracts sorted by subject so your students can choose one of their interest.
A pdf with questions for the analysis of the abstracts

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Part 1
Read the chosen abstract individually and then discuss it. Then, you will be rearranged in new groups, now composed of students who read different abstracts. Now, briefly present the abstracts they read to the rest of their group members (approx. 30 min.).

Part 2

You will now analise a abstract using the following questions (approx. 30 min.):

How long is the abstract (no. words)?
How is the text divided?
Which aspects of the project are described?
How is the text written? (formal conventions, first-person/other point of view, grammatical tense, etc.)
What is good about the text?
How could the text be improved?

Next, you will discuss the structure and content of the abstracts. Based on these conclusions, discuss what you consider to be useful/less-useful approaches to writing abstract texts.

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Questions for part two

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ABSTRACTS

Biology/Biotechnology

Deep Learning-based Stereotactic Cranial Surgery Planning

Joint replacements

Nutritious crops on mars

Nanoscale resolution imaging

Chemistry

Foam – the chemical phenomenon foam

Revolutionising biomonitoring studies with ‘microsampling’

Optimization of the synthesis of the fluorescent dye “nile red”

Computer Science

FollowMe: AI to revolutionize cortical visual impairment therapy

Federated Learning

OSINTer

Neuron-Specific Dropout

Environmental Studies

Feasibility of Using Galleria Mellonella Larvae as a Means to Address Plastic Pollution

Environmental magnetism approach to differentiate air pollution particulate sources

Mathematics

Model space reduction of deterministic systems with nonlinear time evolution

On harmony in number theory a journey from primes to means and logs

Stochastic optimization of energy prosumption systems

Medicine/Biomedicine

Communicating neurobiology behind emotional reactions to children

Compatibility of DeAlta mobile app with Mexico’s healthcare system

Effects of essential oils of lavender and rosemary

Novel method to study gene regulation in brain cancer

Physics

The physics of a bead rolling on a rotating hoop – a problem in nonlinear dynamics

Water Music – Tuning Bottles Easily!

Microresonators for mid-infrared upconversion in plasmonic nanogaps