Abstract

ALMEIDA URIARTE, Ana Margarita; MATIAS CRESPO, Rita M  and  FERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ, Jesús. How to write the abstract of a scientific paper in english. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2010, vol.9, n.3, pp. 403-414. ISSN 1729-519X.

One of the main problems in developing writing skills in English with a Genre approach is to write an Abstract about articles or scientific researches. With the objective to update the knowledge about this theme it was decided to do a bibliographical revision about the most important elements related to this kind of text. In this paper is described the ways of production of the abstract text, it is also analyzed the relation between reading and writing skills, the text information, the discourse information, the genre approach and the different kinds of abstracts, basically medical researches. As a result of the revision done it is suggested to use the model stated by the dutch linguist Teun A. Van Dijk due to its efficacy in researches done by most of the authors consulted in articles and books about this theme. It is concluded that the aspects that should be taken into consideration to write an abstract in english are: the activities or macrorules, also called resunctive operations: elliciting, selecting, generalizing, constructing or integrating, as well as the linguistic analysis of the research articles: length of the abstracts, number and length of statements used, voice and verbal tenses.

Keywords : Reading; Writing; Genre; Abstract.

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