- Writing Report Abstracts
This online handout from Purdue University's Writing Lab contains tips on writing effective report abstracts.
- Engineering Writing Centre: Writing an Abstract for Your Thesis
The Engineering Writing Centre at The University of Toronto offers an excellent tutorial for writing abstracts. It asks you to evaluate four different abstracts, then provides a thorough analysis of each abstract's strengths and weaknesses, along with tips on how to write your own abstract.
- Online Technical Writing: Abstracts
This Web page, part of David A. McMurrey's Online Technical Writing online text, discusses two types of abstracts—descriptive and informative—and illustrates the differences between them with examples. It also includes a Revision Checklist for Abstracts.
- Abstracts
This online handout from the Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gives a brief overview of what an abstract is, what should be included in an abstract, what the writing style of an abstract is, and how to write an abstract.
- Executive Summaries
From the Writing Center at Colorado State University, this site offers a comprehensive guide to writing executive summaries.
- Executive Summaries Complete the Report
Part of a Web site that offers tips for better writing by Dr. Jay Christensen at California State University, Northridge, this Web page provides useful advice for writing executive summaries and includes examples to help illustrate the main ideas.
- Technical Writing: Avoiding Jargon
This Web page, part of an online "short course" in technical writing by Nancy Halligan, offers advice, illustrated with examples, on how to avoid jargon in technical writing.
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