Key Issues in Preparing Abstract

There are some of the key issues in writing an abstract about conciseness and accuracy of statement of the main idea.Generally, abstracts start with a single sentence that is brief description of the main theme of the paper. First of all, narration of statement is introduced without any comment. In abstract of the research based paper maximum in two sentences writer announces the subject and scope of the research. So, there should be brief description of main theme of an article or paper. The practice of applying key words in an abstract is pivotal in this computer age because of electronic information retrieval systems. Statements and abstracts are set electronically and key words are put in electronic storage. When people need information and knowledge for their research, they enter related key words. Computer automatically prints out subject area, title and other related material and information. A writer must keep in mind the following process for writing a good abstract;

• Reasoning for writing
• Statement of the problem
• Procedure of the study
• Findings and results
• Conclusions and recommendations.