from what I have been taught, abstract is a short summary of the entire paper.

A good conclusion is quite tricky. It should not be a just a summary. One can briefly summarise what has been done but the core of a good conclusion should be what it means for now, for future... It is the added value of the paper where a scientist can show off. If I exaggerate most experiments can be done by a anyone with basic science skills. Good scientist however can interpret the data and explain what they mean.

from what I have been taught, abstract is a short summary of the entire paper.

A good conclusion is quite tricky. It should not be a just a summary. One can briefly summarise what has been done but the core of a good conclusion should be what it means for now, for future... It is the added value of the paper where a scientist can show off. If I exaggerate most experiments can be done by a anyone with basic science skills. Good scientist however can interpret the data and explain what they mean.

I agree with you>>> a good conclusion it is not easy to write and it the most important part that could relate the article with the previous articles and further work taking out the recommendation of the current study.

Apart from being a good summary, abstract should be written in a way so that it awakens interest. Forces the reader to go through. Some 'abstractness'of thought help in achieving this objective.

The purpose of conclusion is slightly different. While reflecting on what has been written, it opens possibilities for the future. It may notice the limitations of the research, if any.

the abstract is placed at the beginning which means one thing which it how to hook the readers. on the other hand,the conclusion, is mixed between what you did and what you will do.

Abstract is what the readers see first - it should give an overview of what the study was about, the objective and justification (if space would allow) in brief, the methods, the results obtained and the conclusion made; while the actual conclusion should give your study a perspective - what results did you obtain with respect to the hypothesis you started with; state why you have the results you have; what are the key highlights of the study, and what are next steps or future study that can be done.

Abstract= what is your results?

Conclusion=what is the the value of this study?

Please let me know if these brief definitions is correct or not!

Many thanks

An abstract should be a brief exeutive summary of the entire paper, including problem statement, a very brief summary of the methodoloty, and a preview of the findings and conclusions. Often a journal allows only a few hundred words to accomplish this. But the goal of the abstract is to stimulate enough interest to get people to read the entire paper.

The conclusion to your paper is at the very end, where you restate the value of your research.

But do not confuse "Conclusion" with "Conclusions." The Conclusions section is part of your discussion and it is where you explain the implications of your findings, or recommendnations for practice.

Normally an abstract is written at the beginning of a paper to explain briefly a summary of a paper right from the topic of a subject matter, methods and the findings while the conclusion explains the achievable results and the their applications to the entire world.

An abstract will tell the reader of any academic writing what will be argued, investigated or compared in the essay and this is normally placed at the beginning of any writing. As for the conclusion, it will show the results or the answer(s) to the argument, investigation or comparison stated in the abstract.

Abstract will tell you outline of the work one want to publish

Conclusion is the outline of the work done with outcome

I previously understood that abstract size and number of sentences are less than summary which is written in more details.

Hi,

Still the answers need more add on.

A researcher is facing now this issue(abstract /summary)

In a proposal form they asked her to provide:

an Abstract and in the next line is asked to provide a summary and both look alike.

Then the question:

What to provide in summary, because writing abstract is clear and everyone knows its components?

Still the answers need more details.