Glossary → Abstract

is the summary of paper writing which gives information about the authors, brief descriptions of the methods which were used in the paper. Abstract may also be a very important part of dissertation which gives summary of the contents of the dissertation. It should include the tested hypotheses and obtained results and conclusions of the work. It gives a short explanation of what the paper contains but it is not a review, so it does not give any evaluations of the paper that is abstracted. The abstract is an original paper and not an excerpted passage.