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Abstracts image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Selection
      - Indexing
- - - - The thesis of the work, usually in the first sentence.
      - Background information that places the work in the larger body of literature.
      - The same chronological structure as the original work.
- - - - -Descriptive abstracts
        A descriptive abstract indicates the type of information found in the work.
        
        It makes no judgments about the work, nor does it provide results or conclusions of the research.
        
        It does incorporate key words found in the text and may include the purpose, methods, and scope of the research.
      - -Informative abstracts
        The majority of abstracts are informative.
        
        A good informative abstract acts as a surrogate for the work itself, the writer presents and explains all the main arguments and the important results and evidence in the complete article/paper/book.
        
        An informative abstract includes the information that can be found in a descriptive abstract (purpose, methods, scope) but also includes the results and conclusions of the research and the recommendations of the author.