HELP!!! Submitting Research abstract for Common App supplement!!

Alpha101
Sun, 22 Nov 2015 00:21:53 +0000

Hey guys so I did research over the summer on anti-cancer agent development in a college chemistry lab. It was about 6.5-7 weeks. I wrote about it A LOT in my common app essay and supplements. However, I don’t know how to go about it in an abstract. I didn’t do the research for a competition or anything, but just basically for experience and to learn more about my major–chemistry. In all honesty, I’m not exactly an expert on the research that the professor did. I tried to learn as much as I could–reading college level organic chemistry textbooks and asking as many questions as I could so I could get the basic jist of it. But I just don’t have the basic foundation in organic chemistry to understand much of the research.I basically worked with NMR, TLC’s to differentiate isomers, and column chromatography while int the lab.

However, I really want to submit an an abstract for the common app since my whole major and essays revolve around the experience. I haven’t had any publications or papers though. My professor already had written an abstract of the research prior to my being there and I found parts of it published online.

Would it count as plagiarism if I put in what I contributed and reworded the abstract my professor wrote?Honestly I’m not even sure I can reword it much since it so much dense terminology and information. I’m just worried that my application won’t really hold any credibility if I don’t submit an abstract.