This document provides guidelines for writing an abstract for research papers and theses. It discusses the purpose of an abstract to report the main aims and outcomes of the research. The abstract should highlight the key elements in no more than one paragraph using 7 important elements - a theme sentence, aim/objective, importance, methodology, major findings, conclusion, and implications. It also provides examples of abstracts for empirical studies, literature reviews, and theoretical/methodological papers and emphasizes that an abstract should be accurate, non-evaluative, coherent, readable, and concise.

1. GUIDELINES TO RESEARCH
ABSTRACT
SOUMYA S
M.Ed

2. ABSTRACT
• Summary of an Article
• Concise
• Not more than a paragraph

3. When to write an Abstract
• Thesis
• Dissertation
• Research papers
• Submitting an article to an academic
journal

4. PURPOSE
• To report main aims and outcomes of
research
• Highlight the Key elements

5. Seven important elements of an
Abstract

6. ELEMENT 1
• Start with a brief theme sentence

7. ELEMENT 2
•
• Indicate main aim or objective

8. ELEMENT 3
• Mention the importance of study

9. ELEMENT 4
• Methodology used for study
• Experimental, survey, Qualitative,
Quanditative

10. ELEMENT 5
• Major findings of the study

11. ELEMENT 6
• Conclusion

13. ELEMENT 7
• Practical impliments

14. An Abstract of a report of an
Empirical study
• Problem under investigation
• Characteristics of participants
• The essential features of study method
• The basic findings
• The conclusion and implications

15. An Abstract for a Literature review
• The problem
• Study eligibility criteria
• Types of participants
• Main results
• Conclusion
• Implications

16. An Abstract for a Theory oriented
paper
• How the theory or model works on which it is
based
• What phenomena the theory or model
accounts for and linkage to empirical result.

17. An Abstract for a Methodological
paper
• The general class of methods are discussed
• The essential features of the proposed
method
• The range of application of proposed
method
• Essential features of statistics

18. KEY WORDS
• 6 – 8 key words – directly after the Abstract
• Used to locate the Article
• Represent the most important elements

19. GOOD ABSTRACT IS
Accurate
Non evaluative
Coherent and readable
Concise

20. THANK YOU