Example of abstract in research

How to write your abstract

As we touched on earlier, your abstract should cover four important aspects of your research: the purpose, methodology, findings, and implications.

Therefore, the structure of your dissertation or thesis abstract needs to reflect these four essentials, in the same order. Let’s take a closer look at each of them, step by step:

Step 1: Describe the purpose and value of your research

Here you need to concisely explain the purpose and value of your research.

In other words, you need to explain what your research set out to discover and why that’s important.

How to write an abstract for a research paper

When stating the purpose of research, you need to clearly discuss the following:

It’s essential to make this section extremely clear, concise and convincing. As the opening section, this is where you’ll “hook” your reader (marker) in and get them interested in your project.

If you don’t put in the effort here, you’ll likely lose their interest.

Step 2: Briefly outline your study’s methodo