| Have you been looking for academic materials that will | | | | project finally x-rays, in detail, how the dynamic Obama |
| teach you how to write abstract of your final-year | | | | rose to be a member of House of Assembly of |
| projects in your various disciplines in the university? | | | | America twice, and finally became the American |
| Have you been finding it difficult to write the abstract | | | | President…..”. |
| of your project? Here is the way out in a simplified | | | | From the above, the whole picture and what constitute |
| form. | | | | your project have been clearly disclosed in the |
| Abstract is one of the most important aspects of | | | | abstract. That is what abstract should be. Abstract |
| your academic project; be it undergraduate project, | | | | does not introduce or start discussing the project. For |
| dissertation, or thesis. Abstract depicts, at a glance, | | | | instance, it is wrong to include statements like the |
| what the whole project is all about. It tells what your | | | | following in the abstract: |
| project is going to discuss,, how you are going to | | | | “Barack Obama was born in Africa. He is therefore |
| implement the project, and the methods | | | | a black American. Obama was a brilliant guy in the |
| (methodologies) you are going to use to implement the | | | | university…….” |
| project or the activities involved in the project. | | | | The above is not an abstract because you are |
| Let’s take a very simple illustration. For instance, | | | | already discussing Obama, instead of telling us what |
| if you are to write on the topic “The History of | | | | you are to discuss about him. |
| Barack Obama:- the President of America.”, then | | | | So, in summary, abstract should tell what your project |
| your abstract will be something similar to this: | | | | is all about, what it is going to discuss, how you |
| “This project discusses the history of Barack | | | | achieve the results, and the materials or instruments |
| Obama, the incumbent president of America, from birth | | | | you are using to implement the project. Abstract |
| to date. It gives details of his educational life in primary, | | | | should not introduce the project; instead it intimates the |
| secondary, and university. This project also discusses | | | | reader what he is going to read in your project. |
| his general life as a teenager and as an adult. The | | | | |