Agrawal Swati, Ulrich Paul
Department of Biology, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA.
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2023 Mar 15;24(1). doi: 10.1128/jmbe.00208-22. eCollection 2023 Apr.
An important part of scientific training in undergraduate curriculum involves teaching students how to effectively communicate in science. Scientific writing and oral presentations are important parts of most science classes. The same cannot be said about a new and emerging aspect of many recent scientific articles: graphical abstracts. In recent years, many scientific journals have adopted graphical abstracts as a way to capture both the scientific audience and increase visibility on social media platforms. Graphical abstracts are becoming the norm for many journals; however, there is no equivalent training in undergraduate classes that teaches students the intricate skills of efficient graphical design. In this paper, we share our course design and discuss how students can be taught to design better experiments and excel in communicating their research findings through graphical abstracts.
本科课程科学训练的一个重要部分是教导学生如何在科学领域进行有效沟通。科学写作和口头报告是大多数科学课程的重要组成部分。然而，许多近期科学文章中一个新出现的方面却并非如此，即图形摘要。近年来，许多科学期刊采用图形摘要作为一种吸引科学受众并提高在社交媒体平台上可见度的方式。图形摘要正成为许多期刊的标准；然而，本科课程中并没有相应的培训来教授学生高效图形设计的复杂技能。在本文中，我们分享我们的课程设计，并讨论如何教导学生设计更好的实验，以及如何通过图形摘要出色地传达他们的研究结果。
