ABSTRACT
Look at some well-written abstracts before writing one. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning, Progress in Physical Geography and Progress in Human Geography have examples, and look at Try This 17.1. An abstract should be a short, accurate, objective summary; there is no room for interpretation or criticism. Abstracts should do the following:
let the reader select documents for a particular research problem;
substitute, in a limited way, for the original document when accessing the original is impossible;
access, in a limited way through translations, research papers in other languages.
