Course description
This one-day workshop, on how to write an Abstract, consists of instructions and discussions. We shall use examples from the literature that you will find from your own “library”, using PubMed. You will work in pairs.
First, you will learn to define and recognize the elements of an abstract by analysing the work of others (good and bad), after which you will help your workshop partner to structure an abstract and then… ou will structure and write your own. You will receive assistance, as needed, from the course leader throughout the day, also with your final task – your own abstract. If that task is not finished at the end of the day, it will be completed as homework.
Intended learning outcome
When you have participated in this course you will have learnt:
- to select the abstract type for the journal to which you will submit
- the key contents of an abstract
- to review and improve other people's abstract
- how to extract relevant information from an article for an abstract
- what to include and ...what to exclude
- to judge the structure and contents of an abstract (i.e. you can review work of others and help colleagues with their abstracts)
However, the ultimate outcome of this course is, of course, that you will have structured and written your own abstract.
Course fee
The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the Open market agreement and NorDoc.
For other participants there is a course fee of (2023 prices)
DKK 1200
EUR 160