Entry #13 -Abstracts-

 

If you clickHEREandHEREyou will have access to two texts that refer to abstracts. They include what they are, what are the elements to take into account when writing one, and what its structure is, as well as a guide to help you not forget anything. Here is a graphic organizer that summarizes and briefly explains the most important issues:

Metacognitive Analysis

After having worked on different types of essays, having learned to use a wide amount of tools, and finding many ways of showing our works, I may say an abstract is the most proper way of summarizing all this material and content. All these months we were having access to original material which helped us to understand the details to take into account when we had to reflect on something we had learned so that now it is the turn of knowing how to support a paper with an abstract. This genre is very important because it will catch the reader's attention if it is well written because they might have access to the main idea of a paper so that the readers decide to read the whole paper or not. 

In this opportunity, we have used an online tool named padlet which we have learned to use in a previous entry but now we have posted the information in a different way by doing a timeline. This way of showing what we have read about abstracts is really useful because they are in order of importance so the reader can understand what to include in this genre from the most important characteristics to the less. Portfolio n 13 is a matching of a valuable genre with an original free online tool.