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1、英語醫(yī)學論文摘要寫作II.FunctionsandpurposeofAbstracts(論文摘要的作用)?’Thefunctionoftheabstractofascientificpaperistoprovideanoverviewofthepapersothatthereadersknowthemainstoryandafewessentialdetailsofyourworkwithoutreadingthewholetextofthepaper.Theabstractshouldmakesensebothwhenreadaloneandwhenreadwiththepape
2、r.’?-URMSMJThepurposeoftheabstractistoallowreaderstoquicklyexaminethecontentofapaper.Thisisoneofthemostimportantpartsofthemanuscriptbecausemostbibliographicservicespostabstracts.Theyalsouseabstractstoclassifythepaperbykeywords.Manyreaderslookonlyattheabstractoruseittodecidewhetherornottoexamin
3、emoreofthepaper.Abstractsarealsousedtoselectsubmittedmanuscriptsforpresentationatnationalscientificmeetingssothequalityandclarityofanabstractisalsoimportantinacompetitivesense.Example:ChemicalAbstracts,CA;BiologicalAbstracts,BA;ExcerptaMedica,EMTheabstractisasummaryofthekeypointsfromallsection
4、softhepaper.Someabstractsaremoregeneralintype(indicativeabstracts),whileothersincludesignificantdetailaboutthecontentofthepaper(informativeabstracts).Thelatteraremoretypicalofscientificwritingandshouldincludestatementsabout:Thebackgroundinformation.Theresearchproblemandthehypothesis.Theexperim
5、entaldesignandmethods,describedinenoughdetailsothatthereaderwillunderstandhowtheexperimentsweredone.Theresultswithquantitativedata,supportedbystatisticalanalysis.Theabstractshouldbeabletostandaloneasastatementoftheresearch.Themostimportantconclusionsofthestudy.Thenumberofwordsallowedisusuallyl
6、imitedto250—300wordsintotal.Example:TheJournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation,JAMA<135words;AmericanJournalofmedicalSciences,AJMS〈200words;China:Chinese200-300URMSMJ:non-structured:<150words;structured:<250.Generally:about200wordsTheabstractisusuallywritteninthepasttense.Unlikeothersectionsoft
7、hepaper,theabstractdoesnotusuallyincludereferencestotheliterature.Theabstractshouldnotcontainanyabbreviationssincetheymakereadingdifficult.Spellingerrorsortypographicalmistakesarealsoseriousproblemssincetheymakereadersthinkthattheworkha