Writing an Abstract...

My understanding of writing an ABSTRACT:

1. A summary of the paper you are writing.
2. Need to have all the important things that is there in the paper.
3. People usually read abstract first, therefore need to make it understandable by all.
4. Can't cheat people by having an interesting abstract, but a boring paper, and vice versa.
5. Abstract = portrays the whole paper.
6. Contains the whole contents of a paper in one short paragraphs.

What we did?

1. GF gave us loads of exercises to discuss about the good and bad way of writing abstract. We looked at a few, and managed to point out a few points.
2. We looked at a few example, to see how people writes.
3. We thought about the things needed to be in an abstract, which turns out to be: the whole paper in one short paragraph of abstract. Cool, eh?

This is basically what's needed:

• Intro/Background
• Aims/objectives
• Methodology
• Findings/results
• Conclusions
• Further work/recommendations

(Thank you GF, for all the slides you uploaded, it certainly is useful for us all!)

And, we also learned about TITLE, which I will elaborate more later...

Cheers...