Open AccessEditors Note: Creating Engaging Abstracts For The Journal Of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education
Author(s) -
Timothy F. Slater
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of astronomy and earth sciences education/journal of astronomy and earth sciences education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2374-6254
pISSN - 2374-6246
DOI - 10.19030/jaese.v3i1.9740
Subject(s) - section (typography) , statement (logic) , data science , problem statement , field (mathematics) , library science , computer science , engineering ethics , medical education , epistemology , medicine , management science , engineering , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , operating system
The crafting of journal article abstracts is a consistent weakness among authors across many disciplines. Far too many abstracts serve as brief “teasers” and fail to comprehensively provide a summary of the research. Abstracts that result in the largest number of article citations are those that follow a simple writing formula that starts with a broad description of the field and highlights what is as yet unsatisfactorily examined in the existing literature. The middle section provides the research question, a description of the study-participants, and the research methods used. Finally, desirable, comprehensive abstracts that present a summary of the paper include illustrative results and a short statement of evidence-based conclusions.