SUGGESTIONS for WRITING an ABSTRACT

An informative abstract must be on display with each exhibit entered in the Mid-Columbia Regional Science and Engineering Fair. An abstract is a short summary giving the most important information about your exhibit. It should not exceed 250 words in length but should contain the following information.

Title:

Objective or Hypothesis: The objective, theme, or central idea of your exhibit. What is the basic question you had in mind when you started your project? What was you educated guess regarding your experimentation?

Methods: A summary of the procedures that were used in the experiment.

Results: Discuss your data. Compare your results with theoretical values, published data and or expected results.

Conclusion: Briefly summarize your results. Be specific, do not generalize. Was the hypothesis correct? Was the objective successfully completed.

A good abstract should identify the most important aspects of your project and be written so that the reader knows your basic objective or hypothesis, how you designed your experiment, the results of your study, and the conclusions you have made.