Abstracts

Abstract

What key skills are needed when writing an Abstract? The key skills are to write an Abstract in a way that will enable: • editors to make a quick decision on whether the paper is relevant to their journal (without having to read the whole paper) and is thus worth submitting to referees who will then judge the paper in its entirety • a reader to identify quickly what the paper is about, to judge how relevant it is to their interests, and so to decide whether they should buy / read the whole paper or not. This process is sometimes known as ‘screening’ • information managers (e.g. librarians) to put it in their indexes