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 and Medicine/Biomedicine

Investigating the effects of maternal obesity on fetal cardiovascular function in an ovine model

Influence of the photoperiod on the diapause of P. Machaon

The landscape of on-target & collateral cleavage of various CRISPR-Cas13 orthologs in mammalian cells

Sustainable utilisation of soymilk by-products for probiotic food applications and soil health management

Fishy traits: using deep learning algorithms for non-invasive analysis of complex behaviours

Rainwater collection: an ancestral system in the present

How to make an physiological Biomaterial from spinach leaves

The Relationship Between Tumor-Induced Osteoclastogenesis and Osteoprotegerin

Chemistry

Hydrogen Peroxide-Responsive Small Molecules to Alter Pathological Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease

Engineering

Ultrasonic Communication in Water

The biocarbon future - a holistic approach to new sustainable value chains

Influence of Pumped Hydropower Storage Operations on Biodiversity

Mathematics

Symmetry, Fixed Points and Quantum Billiards

Physics

The Sound of a Drop

A Novel Hadronization Model Explaining Charm-Quark Hadronization in Different Collision Systems Through Yet-Unobserved Excited States and Cluster Volume Dependence

A neural network as a prediction model for the Predictability Time Horizon of the double pendulum

Transient Dynamics of a Retracting Soap Film Bound by a Slinky Spring

Recursive Method for Quantum Computer

Theoretical and experimental investigation of ship wakes