from “English for Writing Research Papers”
Abstract is designed to ‘sell’ your research
content
You can use the answers to these questions to structure your Abstract.
- background / context
- no more than 25%
- whether the context is clear for readers
- eg, sometimes: There is no background information because the context is well known
- the gap I plan to fill
- What was new compared to previous research?
- research problem
- methods
- What was new compared to previous research?
- 通常以method begin+problem开始，比如
- we propose a algorithm for computing connected component…
- results
- What was new compared to previous research?
- implications and/or conclusion
begin
反例：readers have to wait up to 15 words before reaching a key word that enables them to understand the potential relevance of the topic.
例子：the reader learns either immediately or very quickly what the author has done to fill the knowledge gap
self-assessment
you can ask yourself the following questions.
- Whenever I have given my readers information, will it be 100% clear to them
why they are being given this information? - Can I make my Abstract less redundant? If I tried to reduce it by 25% would
I really lose any key content?
