Improving Students' Scientific Writing

At universities students have to possess well-developed academic skills, such as making oral presentations, extracting the key information from the scientific texts or taking notes, in order to succeed in their studies. The article addresses one of such skills, i.e. writing an abstract/a summary, which students usually write on a weekly basis during their university studies and, particularly, when they have to write a longer seminar paper, a bachelor paper or a dissertation. Therefore, the article discusses how this type of scientific writing should look like and provide a few tips of completing it. In conclusion, a specific teaching example is outlined. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.