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Writing GuidesWriting Abstracts |
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Writing GuidesWriting Abstracts |
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Help readers decide if they should read an entire article Help readers and researchers remember key findings on a topic Help readers understand a text by acting as a pre-reading outline of key points Index articles for quick recovery and cross-referencing Allow supervisors to review technical work without bogging down in details Bibliographic Citation or Identification Processes for Writing Abstracts Key Issues in Preparing Abstracts |
Indexing Articles
Even before computers made indexing easier, abstracts helped librarians and researchers find information more easily. With so many indexes now available electronically, abstracts with their keywords are even more important because readers can review hundreds of abstracts quickly to find the ones most useful for their research. Moreover, cross-referencing through abstracts opens up new areas of research that readers might not have known about when they started researching a topic. Next: View Reviewing Employees' Technical Work |
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