From Structured Abstracts to Structured Articles: A Modest Proposal

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jul 1999

From Structured Abstracts to Structured Articles: A Modest Proposal

James Hartley Keele University

Abstract

Work with structured abstracts—which contain sub-headings in a standard order—has suggested that such abstracts contain more information, are of a higher quality, and are easier to search and to read than are traditional abstracts. The aim of this article is to suggest that this work with structured abstracts can be extended to cover scientific articles as a whole. The article outlines a set of sub-headings—drawn from research on academic writing—that can be used to make the presentation of scientific papers easier to read and to write. Twenty published research papers are then analyzed in terms of these sub-headings. The analysis, with some reservations, supports the viability of this approach.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 1999-07-01
DOI: 10.2190/3rww-a579-hc8w-6866
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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