Writing a good abstact advice

[gotrumpet]

Anyone know of any good site or reference for writing prize-winning abstracts?

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[Ryan]

I have written several papers/abstracts and the best advice I received is to look up your topic on www.pubmed.org , read about 10-20 abstracts and then write your own. Generally keep it simple, mention the rational behind the study, what you did and your basic findings. It is also good, but not necessary, if your study leads to further questions that generate a second study. One last thing, don't use extremely unnecessary, very long, repetitive and complex sentences to get across to the reader the basic message, of said abstract, as to thoroughly confuse because if you do it makes one seem like an idiot that is trying to impress his or her audience especially when using big words when a diminutive word would suffice, this has the effect of basically making an @ss out of one's self. (He, he).

Hope this helps