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Writing Science: The Abstract is Poetry, the Paper is Prose.
- Source :
- FASEB Journal; Aug2008, Vol. 22 Issue 8, p2601-2604, 4p, 2 Black and White Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- The author reflects on the similarities of an abstract of a scientific paper to a poetry. He says that like a limerick, the best abstracts are quite irreverent. He adds that the quadripartite rules for the abstract, which include the background information and the results, have their parallels in the verse pattern of the quatrain. According to him, adding controls to the abstract would lead to a short, five-member composition that would work like a limerick.
- Subjects :
- ABSTRACTS
POETRY (Literary form)
QUATRAIN
LIMERICKS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08926638
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- FASEB Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34114325
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.08-0801ufm