how to write an abstract

Concept:
   An abstrct is a miniature report that condense the most important information included in a report, a research paper, a dissertation or other 

technical documents. It summarizes the important points investigated and the results found in an extended piece of writing.
   
Tips:
  1. Reread the article, paper, or report with the goal of abstracting in mind.
  2. Look specifically for these main parts of the aritcle, paper, or report: purpose, methods, scop, results, conclusions, and recommendation.
  3. Use the headings, outline heads, and table of contents as a guide to writing your abstract.
  4. If you're writing an abstract about another person's article, paper, or report, the introduction and the summary are good places to begin. These 

areas generally vover what the article emphasizes.
  5. After you've finished rereading the article, paper, or report, write a rough draft without looking back at whar youre abstracting.
  6. Don't merely copy key sentences from the article, paper, or report: you'll put in too much or too little information.
  7. Don't rely on the way material was phrased in the article in the article, paper, or report: summarize information in a new way.

Structure Support:

  1. Background Information
	Research has shown...
  	It has been proposed..
	Another proposed property...
	The search is on for...
	One of the promising new...
  2. Statement of the Problem
	The objective of the research is to prove/ verify...
	The experiment was designed to determine...
  3. Statement of Procedure:
	To investigate this, ...
	A group of 10 specimens / subjects...
	Measurements were taken after...
	A second group was...
  4. Conclusions:
	It was found that...
	Results imply...
	This data suggests...
	In the experimental group...
	In the control group ...
  5. Relates the Expeiment to the World.
	This kind of research encourages the belief that...
	Similar to ...

Exercises:

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Topic of discussion,
problem,
introduction
(setting the stage)
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Purpose of study,
experiment,
investigation
Method and scop
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Data, results
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Conclusions
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Possible  future
utility
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