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Crafting Effective Abstracts: A Guide for Researchers

This guide provides essential tips for writing a compelling abstract that communicates your research effectively. It outlines the critical functions of an abstract, including offering a complete synopsis, situating your work in the broader discourse, and clearly presenting your research question and methodology. Key dos and don’ts are highlighted, such as avoiding jargon and personal pronouns, while encouraging clear communication of findings. If you wish to engage readers and make your research accessible, this resource is invaluable for both writing and finalizing your abstracts.

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Crafting Effective Abstracts: A Guide for Researchers

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  1. Abstracts Let me just go ahead and apologize for every PowerPoint-related failure you know is about to happen

  2. What an Abstract Does: • Conveys a complete synopsis of the paper so other researchers can decide if they want to read your paper • Introduces the general topic / situates paper in the discourse • Announces your specific research question • Include the aims of the research question: What are you proving? • Briefly introduce methodology and results • Close off with a discussion on your findings

  3. 15o WORDS!

  4. Oh no, Physicist Humor..

  5. Donts • Avoid Jargon • Don’t “play hard to get” with the audience. Let the reader know what your major findings are • Don’t be too humble. You have to sell your findings as important. • Don’t act like a used car salesman • Don’t imply that the paper isn’t important or act like you don’t know why you did this experiment.

  6. Do’s • Do write from the passive voice we use in the results section. Avoid personal pronouns and let the research speak for itself. • Feel free to disagree with your secondary sources • Add two keywords to the bottom of your abstract • Assume your audience has only a basic understanding of your subject.

  7. Headings • TITLE GOES HERE • NAME • SCHOOL ABSTRACT BODY HERE: (Single space, 1 paragraph, no indenting, If you use secondary sources cite them here too)

  8. Homework • Bring a completed draft of your paper to your conference at the appropriate time on Friday. This is your last chance to have it reviewed. • Bring three questions that you came up with about your paper. Be more specific than “Is this okay?” • Post the questions to the moodle forum “Conference questions” before the start of class time on Friday.

  9. Abstract Checklist • Motivation: Why do people care about your phenomenon? (Focus clearly on your research question) • State the research question you studied • Tell how you studied it and who you studied on • Results: What’s the answer? • What are the implications of the paper? What have we learned?

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