Advice on writing abstract


	Advice on writing abstract

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/60f51a92-11d0-47e9-b040-29d516a5207a/AFC600C9-135D-4FC7-9B90-EB8D98958FDA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html" href="http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html" style="font-size: 11px;">research.berkeley.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html"><P>An abstract is a short summary of your completed
         research. If done well, it makes the reader want to learn
         more about your research.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html"><P>These are the basic components of an abstract in any
         discipline:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><B>1) Motivation/problem statement:</B> Why do
            we care about the problem? What practical, scientific,
            theoretical or artistic gap is your research filling?
<P><B>2) Methods/procedure/approach:</B> What did you
            actually do to get your results? (e.g. analyzed 3 novels,
            completed a series of 5 oil paintings, interviewed 17
            students)</p> <P><B>3) Results/findings/product:</B> As a result of
            completing the above procedure, what did you
            learn/invent/create?</p> <P><B>4) Conclusion/implications: </B> What are the
            larger implications of your findings, especially for the
            problem/gap identified in step 1?</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://research.berkeley.edu/ucday/abstract.html"><P>However, it's important to note that the weight accorded
         to the different components can vary by discipline. For
         models, try to find abstracts of research that is similar to
         your research.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AFC600C9-135D-4FC7-9B90-EB8D98958FDA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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