AcademicWriting[4]英语专业论文写作(精品·公开课件).pptVIP

Thesis Organization Contents Abstract What’s the scope of discussion? What’s the background information? What’s the purpose of research? What are the methods of research? What are the discoveries? What are the implication? Abstract Topic Specification (TS) Background Information (BI) Purpose Statement (PS) Methodology and Data (MD) Results/Findings (RF) Implications/Conclusions (IC) 1-2: TS 3-5: time and place, who and what; not BI 6: PS + MD RF + IC, not mentioned An abstract is condensed because of its summarizing nature. It has no redundancy. The following example is taken from the