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Summary type of abstracts
A brief lecture introduces the summary types of RA abstracts.
- Follow IMRD/IPTC structure of the main text.
- Include more moves than results-driven abstracts
- Background
- Objective
- Method
- Result
- Discussion/Conclusion
- Not necessarily longer in length.
- Verb tense follows IMRD.
- In both active/passive voices.
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