The abstract structure generally follows that of the wider paper or thesis, with sections corresponding to aspects of the introduction, methods, results and discussion. As essentially micro-theses, abstracts are short, but writing them is deceivingly hard, as they need to be packed with a lot of information.\u00a0 In addition many people think they are easy and leave them to the night before to write.\u00a0 This is a mistake.\u00a0 The abstract is the first thing a person reads on your proposal or thesis \u2013 a bad abstract will put the reader off, not provide enough information on your study, and generally give the reader a bad impression.\u00a0 A good abstract sets you up for success.\u00a0 We provide a sentence by sentence guide below and will then review two abstracts.\u00a0\u00a0 Good luck and start soon!<\/p>\n
PPT file of presentation<\/a><\/p>\n Let’s read this abstract<\/a> and then critique how the authors did following the rules above.\u00a0 There are a total of 5 sentences and 156 words.\u00a0 Read the abstract yourself and then open our comments and see if you agree.\u00a0 PDF is Marked up. Overall a very nice abstract. \u00a0A few areas could have been extended but a nice abstract that follows the rules!<\/p>\n Secondly, we\u2019ll look at an abstract by Ducklow et al. (2018)<\/a>. Identify the main message or purpose of each section, and see if you can put the abstract back together into its original form. Does the finished abstract show a clear logical progression? Does it give sufficient information on the background, methods and results?<\/p>\nExample 1<\/h4>\n
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