Analysis on the Structure Model of the Abstracts in Forestry Articles
XU Wen-mei · Xibei Linxueyuan xuebao · 2012
In order to standardize the writing of the Abstracts of forestry papers,those published in 9 forestry journals of statistic sources of scientific and technological thesis in China were read one by one to evaluate the integrity of the Abstracts according to the four key of how to write the Abstract of a paper,including purpose,method,result,and conclusion.It was found that the rate of integrity of the 225 papers that had been examined was 65%.The left 35% existed problems in various extents and mainly in 4 aspects: absence of key elements of purpose or with empty and Abstracted expressions,which accounted for 7% of the total;unclear description of the key element of method,accounting for 6%;too general description of the result element,accounting for 3%;absence of conclusion element,which was prominent among all the problems,accounting for 19%.To solve the problems mentioned above,based on the experiences of the authors,some skills of editing the Abstracts of the papers being published were explained with illustrations.It was pointed out that the structure is the basic composition for an Abstract,lack of integrity in an Abstract would result in the reduction of the amount of information expression.Journal editors should pay attention to the Abstract editing while guiding the authors to write perfect Abstracts.