Writing a research paper's title, abstract, and importance sections for reproducibility (CC073)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2021-02-18

I've always struggled with writing the abstract for a  research paper until I found the example abstract at Nature. The simple template follows the And But Therefore structure and can be used to publish your research paper at any journal. In this episode of Code Club, I'll show you my process of writing the title, abstract, and importance sections for a manuscript.

This episode is part of a larger arc of episodes investigating the sensitivity and specificity of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), also known as exact sequence variants (ESVs) and operational taxonomic units (OTUs). ASVs are growing in popularity for analyzing microbial communities using 16S rRNA gene sequences. Proponents think that they should supplant operational taxonomic units (OTUs). What do you think? Pat demonstrates these concepts by live coding at the command line interface using GitHub Flow, Make, and RStudio.

The accompanying blog post can be found at http://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2021-02-18-abstract

You can also find complete tutorials for learning R with the tidyverse using...
Microbial ecology data: http://www.riffomonas.org/minimalR/
General data: http://www.riffomonas.org/generalR/

0:00 Introduction
2:44 Abstract & Importance sections
16:51 Title & Running title
27:19 Keywords
30:05 Conclusion