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Write your abstract and final summary

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Write your abstract and final summary

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- There's an old adage about music. It doesn't matter what you have in the middle if you don't give your audience a good beginning and a good ending. This is especially true with the first and last sections of your research, let's talk about these. The abstract and the final summary. Before you begin, think about how you approached the literature review for your study. You had numerous titles to choose from. And in order to determine what was worth reading, you relied on their abstracts and summaries. A strong abstract would be concise and direct. In two sentences or less, it states the problem. It then gives a very brief sentence description of the instrument and another sentence to flesh out the methodology. Then it addresses significant findings. Abstracts can range in length but 150 to 200 words is a rough estimate. At the same time, your abstract will be read by more people than any other part of your work. How can you get people to your abstract and how can you insure that…

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