WorksheetsWeek 5 - Abstract / Introduction
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is an abstract?
An impressionable piece of art
A detailed analysis of experimental procedures
A concise summary of a research summary
A comprehensive review of background literature
What three questions must an abstract answer?
When was the study conducted?
What new techniques did the researcher use?
Why is this study the best study?
What did the study investigate?
How many people were involved in the study?
Why does it matter?
How was the study conducted?
Where was the study conducted?
Why was the study conducted?
How was the study conducted?
What are the results?
Why does it matter?
How many words should an abstract be?
100-200
200-300
300-400
400-500
What should abstracts NOT include?
results and conclusions
abbreviations and acronyms
1-2 sentences per section
must fit one page
What are some issues in the following excerpt?
"Phonotactics, despite being a core component in the field of Linguistics, remains relatively unexplored as compared to semantics and syntax in natural language processing. Traditional G2P (Grapheme to Phoneme) models are constructed by linguist defined phonotactics, which in turn provides little unprecedented insights to the field. Meanwhile, deep learning requires real world natural language examples and no set of defined rules, allowing undefined rule learning, which is more representative modeling of human knowledge acquisition and could in term provide new discoveries to the field of phonotactics."
grammatical and stylistic issues
the use of an acronym
does not include an introduction
does not include a purpose
What are some issues in the following excerpt?
"By fine-tuning pretrained transformer language models on G2P tasks, we achieved considerably good results in just a few training epochs. Other approaches of model architectures and data augmentation are presented and explored."
use of an acroynym
lack of specificity
first-person anecdotes
(lack of) organization
What are the three key pieces of information an introduction must provide?
Introduce the problem the study will address
Explain why the problem is significant
Discuss the techniques that were used in the research
Provide a literature review of relevant articles
Explain how the study applies to the larger field of research
How should an introduction be structured?
Big Problem, Study's Focus, Hypothesis
Big Problem, Hypothesis, Study's Focus
Hypothesis, Study's Focus, Big Problem
Study's Focus, Hypothesis, Big Problem
Referring back to the R2 article, what is TRUE about the introduction?
does not follow the big problem, study's focus, and hypothesis funnel
too long
does not present the problem their research will address, why this problem is significant, or how it applies to the larger field of research
correctly cited references
What is wrong with this excerpt?
"We show that our model acquired advanced phonotactic knowledge despite few training epochs. It seems to be the case that the larger the dataset, the more phonotactic patterns are acquired, similar to how human’s vocabulary correlates to their morphemic and phonotactic understanding of a language. (9). Mainly, this paper establishes a foundation for future research on the understanding of human phonetic knowledge through deep learning technology."
address relevant findings from other researchers in the field
use of first-person anecdotes
addresses future implications of research
does not belong in introduction
What are some common mistakes when writing an introduction?
Incorporating anecdotes
Lack of or confusing structure
Defining concepts and explaining unknown terms
Writing in passive voice
Addressing information from previous studies
How many words should an introduction include?
100-300
300-500
500-700
it doesn't matter
