> On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:04 AM, Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I do not think that an executive summary would be “meaningless” in academia. It would be more useful to anyone who wanted to know more about the subject than an abstract can provide; people like potential employers, researchers, funding sources, other disciplines, reviewers, journalists, etc. In short, People who want to understand and act on information that has taken so much effort to establish.
Chuck,
I find most abstracts on most conference papers and journal articles I read to be fairly useless. Executive summaries (or abstracts with more clarity and confidence) would be a service to readers and might also serve as a reminder to researchers that saying something is vital. It doesn't have to be simple, unequivocal, or without doubt or nuance but saying something is important. A short statement of what will be learned (minus evidence and argument) would allow people to better understand the relevance to their needs and it would also help the authors understand their own writing and, perhaps, reconsider how they present their research.
Gunnar
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