ZIPS High School Summer Research Program at the University of Akron

Writing a Structured Abstract
An abstract is a summary of the essential elements in your research project. At minimum, include these sections in your structured abstract: Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusion. Use the questions below to guide you in answering these questions in your abstract:

• What is your project? (i.e. the main question or problem)
• How did you get the results?
• What are the results?
• Why the results were significant, novel, correct or good?
• What is your conclusion?

A few tips about writing your structured abstract:

• Don’t define terminology, give background information or talk about the work of others.
• Don’t state your motivation.