Research Assignment

Task: What's in an Abstract?

Dear students,

You will notice from reading the Assessment Criteria document that your Project Output paper requires an abstract. 

An abstract is written in a different "voice" than the research paper itself and can be quite difficult to put together as it is a very descriptive and focused piece of writing.  A typical abstract is usually about 250 words.

The posted chart details the characteristics of an abstract.

For this formative task, you will need an already published abstract:

1. Please find a research article that interests you and examine the abstract.  

2. Use the chart to determine if the abstract contains all of the relevant characteristics listed on the chart.  

3. If characteristics are missing, how and where in the abstract might you add them?

4. Please submit your formative task for feedback from your tutor.

Later on, you can utilise this chart to help structure the abstract for your own project output paper.