3 Engish fr Acaemic Paper Writing Pbicatin09 学术论文写作课件.ppt

Definition of Abstract An abstract is an abbreviated, accurate representation of the contents of a document, preferably prepared by its author(s) for publication with it. by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) English for Academic Paper Writing Publication Unit 3 Abstract * English for Academic Paper Writing PublicationUnit 3 Abstract General functions Miniaturizing the text a condensed statement of the contents of a paper Deciding “Yes” or “No” acceptance or not by a journal/conference Expanding the circulation academic influence * English for Academic Paper Writing PublicationUnit 3 Abstract 2. Linguistic features Limited length 200 words; 50 ~ 100 words; 500 words Categories descriptive (indicative): general subject matter in a qualitative way informational (informative): findings and results in a quantitative way * English for Academic Paper Writing PublicationUnit 3 Abstract informational-descriptive: a combined form that bears specific information about the principal findings and results and general information about the rest of document. Complete content self-contained, unified, coherent, concise summary 3 elements: a statement of the problem; a statement of the approach to solving the problem; the principal results * English for Academic Paper Writing PublicationUnit 3 Abstract Formalized structure topic sentence (what): going straightforwardly to the subject or the problem and indicating the primary objective supporting sentences (main body): specifying further the subject by research methods,experiments, procedures, investigations, calculations, analysis, results concluding sentence(s): analyzing the results, explaining the applicat