An abstract is a short statement about your project designed to give the reader a complete, yet concise, understanding of your project. It is usually only one paragraph long.
Content
Title:
What is the best way to summarise your project? Aim for a single, concise phrase that indicates both the content and context of your work.
Tip: Look through a relevant publication for examples of the style used within your particular discipline
Background and Problem:
Why is your topic important / significant?
What is the problem you're trying to solve?
What is the history of this problem?
Aims:
Specifically, what are you trying to achieve in your research project?
Methods:
What approach / study design did you take in your project?
What were the procedures you carried out? Include measurement and data analysis techniques.
Results:
What were the results of your methods? What did you learn?
Conclusions:
What implications do your results have for the field of research and/or practice?
What conclusions have you come to about your topic?
Examples
Example 1:
Title: Homogeneous Intrinsic Neuronal Excitability Induces Overfitting to Sensory Noise: A Robot Model of Neurodevelopmental Disorder Authors: Hayato Idei, Shingo Murata, Yuichi Yamashita & Tetsuya Ogata
Example 2:
Title: Producing Radiologist-Quality Reports for Interpretable Deep Learning Authors: W. Gale, L. Oakden-Rayner, G. Carneiro, L. J. Palmer & A.P. Bradley
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