{"id":546,"date":"2018-06-21T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efolio.soton.ac.uk\/blog\/discoverneuroscience\/?page_id=546"},"modified":"2019-03-14T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:56:50","slug":"step-4-page-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/for-students\/project-guide\/step-4-communicating-your-project\/step-4-page-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 4 Page 4 &#8211; What is an Abstract?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">An <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips19'>Abstract<\/span> can be described simply as a summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech. However, an <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips19'>Abstract<\/span> is often more complex than this with a variety of information included such as the scope, purpose, methodology, results, and conclusions of the research, all written very concisely. This is not designed as an evaluation of the work, but instead as a description to summarise the work to readers who have not yet read the whole piece of work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">You may wonder why researchers bother to write abstracts. Abstracts can help potential readers to get a brief understanding of a piece of work that allows them to decide whether or not they will read it, and this is important to researchers with limited time. As well as this,\u00a0they often contain key words from a piece of weird and this helps to index works, therefore making them easier to categorise and find. 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This means that the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips19'>Abstract<\/span> of a piece of work is vital for making\u00a0it easy to find.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/for-students\/project-guide\/step-4-communicating-your-project\/step-4-page-3\/\">\u2190Go back to Step 4 Page 3 &#8211; Giving a Good Presentation<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/discoverneuroscience\/for-students\/project-guide\/step-4-communicating-your-project\/step-4-page-5\/\">Go to Step 4 Page 5 &#8211; Writing a Scientific Report\u2192<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips3','The part of the nervous system responsible for control of the bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestive processes.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips8','Any or all of the sciences, such as neurochemistry and experimental psychology, which deal with the structure or function of the nervous system and brain.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips19','<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">A summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech.<\/span>'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips22','<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.<\/span>'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Abstract can be described simply as a summary of the contents of a book, article, or speech. 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