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Writing Abstracts

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For everyone who has had to do this, hats off.

For 40 + years, I have loathed this task. I think that sometimes I have spent as much time on a 250 word abstract for a report as on the report itself.

Currently, I am at 263 words and other than slicing out conjunctions...I am frozen.

Maybe when I get up at 5 am tomorrow morning, those last extraneous nouns and verbs will jump out at me.

I think that I should get some relief because my client's name is three words...so if I shorten it, I would lose the extra verbiage with no sweat.
 
I have to do it regularly. Go for contractions such as "I'm" rather than "I am", hyphenate where possible as that only counts as one word rather than two (eg self-employed) and cut out "and" and have short sentences instead.
 
Abstracts... learnt about those in the first university I visited. They had a database on a system with an rgb monitor (for you younguns that's a green and black monitor) and we learnt to search with Booleans.

Think the program/system was called Current Contents.

1995... some interesting, some very painful memories.

Have always liked libraries and think that I ended up being good at researching materials there... which almost never came in handy in real life, but made the three colleges I ended up attending (all in vain) a little more interesting.

Why did I have to be a rebel in a time that doesn't reward rebellion?
 
Managed to carve them out and nail the little fucker down.
 
An abstract is a short synopsis that appears at the beginning of articles in professional, scientific, and medical journals, which gives the reader the main points or findings in the body of an article.
 
Araucaria said:
An abstract is a short synopsis that appears at the beginning of articles in professional, scientific, and medical journals, which gives the reader the main points or findings in the body of an article.
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OK so why not just say synopsis?
 
unloadonme said:
Or "summary"? Because they're American I guess. Divided by a common language and all that.
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I believe the thread's author is Canadian, but may have been born and raised in the US.

Tricky business, that.;)
 
We always referred to it as an abstract in scientific research, and our language heritage is British.
 
Absracts have a very specific content and structure or layout, since they are intended to be published as stand-alone documents, allowing researchers to decide if the complete paper is worth acquiring and reading, or whether the conference segment is worth the time/cost.
A summary, on the other hand, would form a small section within the research paper or conference, independent of the abstract.
 
Thanks to those who explained the difference...for me a summary is a snap. It is the first section of any report.

But an abstract functions somewhat differently and that is why every word ends up mattering more. I like the challenge of them...but when I am at a deadline, I want to go out and throw myself face first in a snowbank in order to clear my thinking.
 
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