Preparation of documentary abstract: quality, parameters and standards

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Vanda de Jesus
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santos, Cibele Araújo Camargo Marques dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: InCID
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/incid/article/view/178025
• topic: Organização e Representação do Conhecimento; Análise Documentária; Resumos; Periódicos científicos; Knowledge Organization; Documentary analysis; Abstracts; Scientific journals

Presents theoretical and practical research on the process of preparing abstracts, documentary products that allow the scientific production and dissemination development. It seeks to summarize existing parameters, verify their contribution and application in structuring the abstract in scientific articles, and reflect on the quality of the abstracts presented. Such investigation is justified by the fact that the abstract is a pre-textual element studied by the Knowledge Organization and Representation field, which enables the efficiency of information retrieval. To this end, abstracts from a sample of thirty-five scientific articles were selected and analyzed. After analyzing the sample, it was observed that the minimum normative parameters identified are little applied in the writing of abstracts, omitting one or more of the four parts considered essential in a summary: objective, methodology, results and conclusions. It concludes that the existing parameters are generalist and little required, making it difficult to produce abstracts that serve their purpose well.