EXAMPLE 3: CONVERTING A POPULAR SCIENCE ARTICLE TO AN ABSTRACT
The students who completed this task were 2nd year mechanical engineering students.

STUDENT REPLY 2: Instructor's comments

 

Overall, the student’s abstract is appropriate in terms of understanding of academic discourse conventions, language accuracy and summarising. The student has:

• Used relevant context from the original text.

• Ordered the information appropriately for an abstract (introduction, research gap, methods, results, implications).

• Used her/his own words, thus avoiding plagiarism.

• Provided an appropriate research title.

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