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A Good Trailer Is The Best Sauce : An Introduction To Abstract Writing
A Good Trailer Is The Best Sauce : An Introduction To Abstract Writing
• It offers a preview.
• Upholds the theme.
• Harps on the keypoints.
Remember:
Just as a trailer induces people to watch a movie by
triggering their interests, an abstract too induces the
readership of your paper to be…
However, you have to fit in a few essential points from your paper
in the Abstract, inclusive of keywords, which will determine the
subject matter of your paper.
Readers should be able to determine the Subject of your paper
just as you can determine the Subject of a movie by looking at its
trailer.
TIPS FOR WRITING AN ABSTRACT:
• Tip 1:
Write the Abstract after you have finished writing the Paper. Just
in the same way as a Trailer is composed after a movie has been
made, compiling bits and pieces from it.
• Tip 2:
Pick out the major objectives/hypotheses and conclusions from your
Introduction and Conclusion Sections.
Don’t just copy and paste in order to avoid redundancies.
• Tip 3:
Keywords have to be selected from your methods section…