#13 What is an abstract?

 



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Source: The University of Melbourne. Retrieved from the website. Available at: https://services.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/471274/Writing_an_Abstract_Update_051112.pdf Last visited: Oct. 21st, 2020

Source: University of Southern California. Retrieved from the website. Available at: https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/abstract Last visited: Oct.21st. 2020.


Group work:  Costa Laura, Flocco Leticia, Mannella Marcela


Beyond the time we have been dealing with academic material, formal writing articles and abstracts, they have become unavoidable texts if we are willing to study from genuine material. It is fair to admit that they have assigned a huge role at the moment of gaining time because they work like shortcuts to our mind. It could be impossible to preview academic texts without abstracts. This is why it is fundamental  to write them accurately. We can affirm they function as independent texts, moreover,  they are a separate genre too. On the one hand, an abstract is an indivisible part of an academic text, and conforms to the same discourse (text). On the other hand, abstracts work as a preview that we scan to get the idea of what is coming next, a text where the gist is being focused and zipped.


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