Timeline for Is it wrong to start your abstract with a question?
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| Nov 25, 2017 at 9:07 | comment | added | Jens | @Mark: One of those papers he misses being titled P = NP?, Abstract Why not? We can prove it. That's even a rhetorical question. If you've got something fundamentally new to say, you can always break the rules :-) | |
| Nov 24, 2017 at 15:09 | answer | added | user82730 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 24, 2017 at 5:16 | vote | accept | John Smith | ||
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| Nov 23, 2017 at 12:44 | answer | added | Siegfried | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Nov 23, 2017 at 7:49 | history | suggested | Bluebird | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2017 at 5:45 | comment | added | Bluebird | "My friend and I are in the field of Information and CS (broadly speaking). He added that only some very prominent scholar dare to write such abstract." Ask your friend to read your question and the overwhelming response on academia. | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 5:40 | history | edited | John Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2017 at 2:38 | answer | added | o-0 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 23:03 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I see nothing wrong in starting an abstract with a question. In fact, I think quite a few abstracts would be improved by such a start. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 22:49 | comment | added | Karl | Your friend missed the point. He's probably right, however, that starting your abstract with the three question you want to answer is miserable style and will lead people to think the rest of the paper is written as badly. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 18:33 | history | edited | henning no longer feeds AI | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2017 at 16:55 | comment | added | Philip Oakley | If a newspaper headline asks a question, then the answer is No, and no it's not worth reading... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines Maybe the same would be applied to your abstract (see other answers for how to reword and resolve the issue) | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 15:22 | answer | added | Penguin_Knight | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 14:02 | comment | added | Ink blot | If your field of study is English literature, you could write a paper about this very topic, and the abstract would read "Is it wrong to start the abstract of your paper with a question? In this work we argue that it is not a good idea to do so." | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 10:50 | comment | added | David Richerby | @NathanS. Colons don't begin a new sentence, so Alan's friend won't read your paper. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 10:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/933281297874558978 | ||
| Nov 22, 2017 at 10:25 | answer | added | Ink blot | timeline score: 48 | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 9:38 | answer | added | Nikey Mike | timeline score: 64 | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 7:44 | comment | added | Mark | I would expect your friend to miss some important studies when not reading papers (or only your paper?) in case their abstracts start with a question. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 6:49 | answer | added | Bluebird | timeline score: 40 | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 4:49 | comment | added | Nathan S. | What general field are you in? How is the abstract being used? I could easily see the second sentence of an abstract being a question. e.g. "There are three fundamental questions in our field: 1. ... ? 2. ... ? 3. ... ?" | |
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| Nov 22, 2017 at 4:14 | history | asked | John Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |