noun / adjective / verb · academic
abstract
/ˈæbstrækt/AB·stract
n. a short summary of a research article or paper; adj. not concrete; theoretical
Examples
“She read the abstract before deciding whether to download the full article.”
“The concept is still quite abstract and needs clearer examples.”
“They abstracted the key variables from the raw data for further analysis.”
Band 8 sentence
“I always check the abstract first to decide if a paper is relevant to my literature review.”
Collocations
- write/submit an abstract
- abstract of a paper
- abstract idea
Word family
Common mistakes
thinking 'abstract' always means 'trừu tượng' and using it to mean 'tóm tắt'→Use 'abstract' = 'tóm tắt' when talking about a paper; use 'abstract' = 'trừu tượng' for ideas
I submitted abstract of my paper.→I submitted the abstract of my paper.
Say it for a higher band
5summary→6overview→7+abstract
Synonyms
summary
conceptual
Easily confused
summary
“I read the abstract to check whether the study matched my research question.”
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