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Historically American. Uniquely Caribbean. Globally Interactive. Emerging Caribbean Scientists Programs #2 John Brewer’s Bay ● St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands 00802 ● Tel: (340) 693-1232 ● Fax: (340) 693-1245 ● http://ecs.uvi.edu How to Write an Abstract An abstract is a summary of your presentation or paper in 10-15 sentences. The length varies (read the guidelines), but is usually about 200-250 words The abstract includes 1-3 sentences summarizing each section of the presentation or paper. The components of the abstract are: 1. Title: Should reveal your main finding 2. Author & mentor 3. Introduction: Tell why we should care about this issue. Give necessary background information. Give question or hypothesis, and perhaps predictions. 4. Methods: Summarize the techniques used to get your results. Skip the technical details, but do mention your statistical test(s). 5. Results: Summarize the data, including results of statistical test(s). 6. Conclusion: Explain the implications of your data. 7. …
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Historically American. Uniquely Caribbean. Globally Interactive. Emerging Caribbean Scientists Programs #2 John Brewer’s Bay ● St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands 00802 ● Tel: (340) 693-1232 ● Fax: (340) 693-1245 ● http://ecs.uvi.edu How to Write an Abstract An abstract is a summary of your presentation or paper in 10-15 sentences. The length varies (read the guidelines), but is usually about 200-250 words The abstract includes 1-3 sentences summarizing each section of the presentation or paper. The components of the abstract are: 1. Title: Should reveal your main finding 2. Author & mentor 3. Introduction: Tell why we should care about this issue. Give necessary background information. Give question or hypothesis, and perhaps predictions. 4. Methods: Summarize the techniques used to get your results. Skip the technical details, but do mention your statistical test(s). 5. Results: Summarize the data, including results of statistical test(s). 6. Conclusion: Explain the implications of your data. 7. You may need to acknowledge funding sources What else do you need to do: • Get a friend to proofread! Grammar and readability are important. • Get your mentor to read it! You may need his/her approval, and it’s good to have another proofreader. Developed by Dr. Alice Stanford, astanfo@uvi.edu