# Entry 13 Abstracts.

 ABSTRACTS

Academic Articles are part of the genres that teachers can write if they want to do research, if they want to study from "authentic material". We are going to analyse them, so get ready for an interesting description of ARTICLES. Not only do FORMAL (academic) ARTICLES share these features, but also they are headed by  ABSTRACTS. So, let's delve into this "new genre". An abstract is an independent text that comprises the most important concepts of the paper, the purpose of the research, the state of the art, what is missing, and the results of the investigation.

 

When writing an abstract:

AVOID all kind of "supporting material":

• Long background information,
• parahrased sentences, too many adverbs or adjectives,
• quotes, references from other sources, overgeneralizations e.g. "studies have indicate that..."
• figures, statistics, tables, etc.

There are four types of abstracts:

• Critical Abstract.
• Descriptive Abstract.
• Informative Abstract.
• Highlight Abstract.

Each sentence in an abstract fulfils a specific purpose. These are called "moves":

• the overall purpose of the study and the research problem(s) investigated,
• the basic design of the study,
• major findings found as a result of the analysis,
• a brief summary of the conclusions.

Metacognitive Analysis #13

I found this entry really interesting since before reading  the information provided in the sites , I did not know about the importance of including an abstract in our  papers. The abstract summarizes the  paper in one  paragraph and includes relevant information that helps the reader  decide if he wants to read the rest of the paper. For this reason, in order to succeed in writing not only we have to write a good paper but also we have to check that this  independent text agrees with our final work.

In order to create our study notes we were asked to go to Padlet and create a timeline. I found this free online tool very useful since it allows us to present our works in a more creative way. Using digital technology also helps us to keep motivated to learn.