
How to write abstract for Dissertation?
Here we talk about the abstract as a finished product, a necessary part of your final submission, but we also talk about it as a useful working tool.
Most students regard the abstract as one of the last things - along with acknowledgements, title page and the like - that they are going to write. Indeed, the final version of the abstract will need to be written after you have finished reading your thesis for the last time.
However, if you think about what it has to contain, you realise that the abstract is really a mini thesis. Both have to answer the following specific questions:
Therefore, an abstract written at different stages of your work will help you to carry a short version of your thesis in your head. This will focus your thinking on what it is you are really doing, help you to see the relevance of what you are currently working on within the bigger picture, and help to keep the links which will eventually unify your thesis. Process
If you have trouble writing an abstract at these different stages, then this could show that the parts with which you are having a problem are not well conceptualised yet.
Before you know what you've found, you have to have some expectation of what you are going to find as this expectation is part of what is leading you to investigate the problem. In writing your abstract at different stages, any part you haven't done you could word as a prediction. For example, at one stage you could write, "The analysis is expected to show that ". Then, at the next stage, you would be able to write "The analysis showed that ." or "Contrary to expectation, the analysis showed that ..". The final, finished abstract has to be as good as you can make it. It is the first thing your reader will turn to and therefore controls what the first impression of your work will be. The abstract has
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