Timeline for Is it wrong to start your abstract with a question?
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| Nov 24, 2017 at 23:42 | comment | added | Dɑvïd | Still not as short as Gardner & Knopoff, in the Bulletin of the Seimological Society of America 64.5 (Oct 1974), for which the abstract was simply: "Yes." | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | lighthouse keeper | As a controversial opinion: no, that's not a good abstract. It's surely a cool stunt and a nice story to tell when socializing with other academics, but it lacks most features of a good abstract. It is, however, a good illustration of the adjective "abstract". | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 20:38 | comment | added | Rmano | @Polygnome, yes, competing with this: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1101812 | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Kimball | The mathematician Barry Simon once wrote an abstract like this: Abstract: Yes, of course. But we give examples too. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | user24098 | Does this answer the question? See abstract quoted above. Still it's cool. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 14:16 | comment | added | Ink blot | Well, this is not a question, though. :) | |
| S Nov 22, 2017 at 14:14 | history | suggested | muru | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
applied quote formatting to the quoted abstract
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| Nov 22, 2017 at 11:31 | comment | added | Polygnome | That is probably the best abstract I've ever read. | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 11:31 | comment | added | skymningen | This is awesome! | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 10:48 | comment | added | David Richerby | If the asker's friend refuses to read question-abstracts, surely they'll reject question-titles, too? ;-) | |
| Nov 22, 2017 at 10:25 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 22, 2017 at 9:38 | history | answered | Nikey Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |