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Internationally awarded researcher and student Dr Peace Sorochi Longdet has said determination are planetary opportunities for autarkic Nigerian researchers with a probe team.
Longdet stated this astatine a virtual workshop, ‘The Art of Writing an Abstract’, organised by the Plateau Writers Society (PLAWS), which she facilitated.
The researcher, who responded to the questions from 1 of the 47 participants astatine the event, said that having a probe squad signifies credibility and professionalism to planetary organisations that the grantee for their task would present connected the job.
To found a probe team, she said, depends connected the researcher’s objective.
“I americium successful the humanities, but I americium funny successful interdisciplinary probe work, similar the tech app probe I americium progressive in. Therefore, whoever I take to enactment with my squad indispensable beryllium useful. I acceptable up my probe squad based connected a worth system. That means based connected the worth that each idiosyncratic is bringing to the team.
“I sorb volunteers who tin adhd worth to my squad archetypal arsenic ‘mentees’. This way, we tin usher them done the full process of the probe enactment to spot however it’s done,” she said.
Besides teaching the participants the meaning, types and purposes of Abstract Writing, a large facet of a probe insubstantial oregon essay, Longdet, who has consulted for the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), GIZ, among others, wrote abstracts and proposals that person earned her probe grants successful seven-digit figures. She besides gave them tips connected however to go nonrecreational researchers.
She listed pitfalls to debar erstwhile penning Abstracts and Introductions, thus: “Avoid vague and generic connection oregon words, jargon and overly agelong oregon excessively abbreviated Abstracts. Ensure your Abstracts person a wide operation and flow. Use progressive voices. Above all, simplicity is key. In the words of Albert Einstein – “If you cannot explicate it simply, past you don’t cognize it good enough.” Own your work, internalise it, judge it. That way, condensing it into an Abstract volition beryllium overmuch easier.”
To aspiring probe writers, she urged them to place and recognize their intent for doing immoderate probe work.
“Do not constitute without a purpose. Start from the taxable of interest. For everything you bash successful life, determination is simply a purpose. Same for research. It’s astir your intent for doing the research. That is what fuels your passionateness for penning it. There is simply a intent for penning that essay. So, support connected writing. Attend conferences successful your country of involvement and use for insubstantial submissions astatine those conferences,” Longdet said.
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