Summary of Writing the Research Abstract

Let’s recap the chapter on Abstracts here:

1. Abstract typically include five goals of Introduce Research, Describe Research Intention, Describe Methods, Present Research Results and Present Concluding Remarks.
2. Depending on your field and discipline conventions, some of the goals such as Introduce Research and Present Concluding Remarks might be eliminated from the Abstract.
3. One major way to condense the Abstract is to condense each Goal and merge it with the Goals before and after.
4. The language used and the Strategies used to fulfill each of the five goals is similar to that used in the same sections of a research article.
5. The key to learning how to write an Abstract in your field is to do a model Abstract analysis. You will read more about this in the next section.