abstracts are so tricky.
you want to be brief and be brilliant.
you want them to know that you've done your
reading...
that you can relate all the obscure concepts in a
way that's never been done before...
that your research problem is new and different and
so very very very important....
you want them to pick you.
but- you only have 300 words and names for all of those well related and
summarized articles count as words... the fantastic way you synthesize things-
words too.
people will recommend in both irony and seriousness that you find bigger
words, better words
that you shave, abridge, recapitulate…
this is the issue with words.
they aren’t good or bad… they only cut when architected to do so or
thrown about so carelessly that they’re re-forged into something stronger.
they’re gorgeous, but imperfect.
the abstract is in. :)
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