Present situation of deficiencies in structural key elements in the abstracts of articles in agricultural periodicals
Zhang Zhen-lin · 2011
In order to ascertain the facts that there are deficiencies of structural key elements in the abstracts of articles in scientific and technological periodicals of agriculture,nineteen agricultural periodicals of natural science were selected to investigate the deficiencies in the abstracts published recently in the periodicals.Thus it can be seen that there actually exist the deficiencies of structural key elements in the abstracts of articles in scientific and technological periodicals of agriculture.The deficiencies could reduce the entirety,even correctness,of the information about the articles acquired by readers through their abstracts,which should be paid great attention to by editors.Quite a part of the abstracts without objectives and conclusions are not actually deficient in the information of objectives and conclusions,but formally short of related structural key elements,so the deficiencies can be taken as ellipsis.