SCI papers are generally written in two ways. One is to extract the essence from the main body of the paper, which is the central topic of the paper. The second is to extend and enrich the topic of the paper. Due to the different English proficiency, the differences between languages are also very prominent. Therefore, some necessary skills for writing abstracts must be known. Language problems can be solved by polishing the paper, but the content structure needs careful scrutiny in the early stage.

Generally speaking, the author can make an English abstract for his SCI paper in three steps, namely, screening the content, describing the abstract and finalizing it.

I. Screening content

The abstract of a research paper should generally include the following contents: the purpose of the experiment or research, the time and place of the experiment, the main materials and methods used, the main results and conclusions drawn. Generally speaking, the abstracts of research papers should include the main results that can answer the promises made to readers by the titles of original documents, and the basic elements that can make readers understand these results correctly.

Experimental research results are the most important content in scientific papers, the main body and core part of the paper, and also the information materials that readers are most concerned about and need to know. When selecting this part of the content, we must carefully analyze and compare it, and choose the most important and appropriate one that directly affects the reader's correct understanding of the original text, which is the most critical link to determine the quality of the abstract. If you can't choose too many results, you should first choose those that have been verified or have long-term value, important findings, results that contradict previous theories, or parts that are related to practical problems.

After completing the SCI paper, the author reads through the article, abstracts the contents in the original text according to the above principles, and marks them appropriately.

Second, abstract narrative.

Re-read the above-mentioned filtered and marked contents in the original text, compress them, and then describe them.

In this step, the best way is for the author to think in English and compress the selected content. But it is very difficult to do this, which requires the author to have a solid English foundation.

Generally speaking, the author has read a lot of English literature related to the research topic before the experiment, so it is not difficult to imitate similar sentences or words in the abstract when describing the abstract.

What is described here is only the general principle. Specific narrative methods, such as how to write the title, how to write the opening sentence, how to write the closing sentence, and some common expressions, will be discussed in detail in the following chapters.

Three. final version

After completing the above steps, you can get the first draft of the abstract, and then you can review and read the first draft of the abstract. This is a quality check of the first draft of the abstract, which helps to find out all kinds of mistakes in the abstract compared with the original. You can check the quality of the abstract from the following three aspects:

Whether the structure of 1. abstract is complete.

2. Whether the abstract is complete, coherent and concise.

3 whether it meets the requirements of the abstract, whether it meets the requirements in form and length, and comprehensively edit and process the abstract.

A good English abstract can make reviewers understand the big framework of the article at a glance, but it puts forward higher requirements for the English level and expressive ability of scientific papers, which can be solved by polishing the papers and constantly improving their English writing ability.

Reference: Charlesworth's paper polishing skills/index.php/our-services/SCL.html.