89 B2+ | 8. Klasse | Unit 07: For science! (6) (beforehands) so that people can decide which talks they would like to listen to. In all of these cases, the purpose of an abstract is the same: it summarises the (7) (main) points in a clear and (8) (concis) way. As the author of an academic paper, you know that your (9) (potenntial) readers will decide whether your paper is worth their time or not based on your abstract. It is therefore important to get it right, and authors often spend a lot of time writing and (10) (rivising) an abstract even though it is just a short text. Structure of an abstract An abstract has a very clear structure. Typically, it contains the following information: Background – what makes your topic important? Why did you choose it? Aims – what is the purpose of the paper? What question(s) did you ask yourself when you started? Methods – what did you do to answer your question(s)? Results – what did you find out? Conclusion – what do the results mean? What can people learn from them? Study Marie’s VWA story in task 3 and use the information to answer the questions about each point in this table. The first one has been done for you. WRITING 5a Background: Why is the topic important? because it concerns many schoolchildren in Austria: 26% grow up with more than one language Aims: What questions did Marie ask herself? Methods: How did she try to answer her questions? Results: What did Marie find out? Conclusion: What can people learn from Marie’s results? Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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