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6ren
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Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Foru...
> 8. [...] one starts with the conclusion in the abstract, and then builds up an argument for it in the paper itself.
Yeah but you
write
the abstract last (intro too). Having a conclusion at the beginning is just UI.
thesteamboat
on June 20, 2012
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I cringed at this point. Especially in mathematical fields where the abstract is in some sense an API -- it tells you what theorems you might use from this paper and how to apply them.
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Yeah but you write the abstract last (intro too). Having a conclusion at the beginning is just UI.