Prepare a TED talk on a years-long research project but you only have 10 minutes to present your research and results.

The paper needs to include a title page, an abstract page (see guide), and references (see guide). These sections do not count in the four-pages summary. So ideally the paper should be 7-pages long in total.

Your task is to simplify a complex paper into a simple summary. So, imagine that you had to prepare a TED talk on a years-long research project but you only have 10 minutes to present your research and results.

Same logic: you only have four pages, and you don’t have to come up with your own research, but only summarize what other researchers did.

In the methods & results sections, do not worry about reporting numbers, graphs or statistics, but describe what the authors of the paper did, how many studies they ran, what methods they used, and what they found. The more it reads like a story, the better.

In the discussion section, do not forget to include yourself, i.e. a few lines related to the limitations you perceived in the paper and possible future directions.

 

Prepare a TED talk on a years-long research project but you only have 10 minutes to present your research and results.
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