Préparer un résumé scientifique informatif et bien structuré : un facteur clé pour être accepté·e en colloque

Abstract

This text presents a concise and operational guide to writing informative and well-structured scientific abstracts in the context of the student conference Les Journées de linguistique. It constitutes a synthesized version of a support protocol that was implemented and progressively stabilized by the organizing committee between 2022 and 2026. The guide describes a structure based on the IOMRD sequence (Introduction, Objectives, Methods, Results, Discussion/Conclusion), which is widely attested across scientific disciplines, and offers recommendations derived from a retrospective examination of several hundred student abstracts (2006–2025). By making explicit the expected content, its ordering, balance, and degree of informativeness, this document aims to render typically implicit expectations visible and to reduce inequalities stemming from uneven familiarity with the implicit norms of scientific writing.