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• Write the English abstract after your advisor has approved the Finnish abstract.
  
  
• Composing an abstract is a challenging task. Linguistic research, writing the text, and editing the language and style may take up more time than you expect – anything between 3 – 8 hours.'
  
  

• You can write the abstract on your own, or attend an abstract writing workshop.

• Send the whole thesis/report to the designated English instructor for language check 10 days before the final deadline:
  
  Kaija Ahola: Conservation, Design, Media
  Sari Hantula: Music & Pop & Jazz Music
  Anu Pekkarinen: Cultural Management, Fashion and Clothing, Film & Television, Performing Arts
  

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• Introduction: Who has done what?
• Methodology: When, where and how was the research or project carried out?
• Results and conclusions: What did you learn during the process?
• Discussion: Why is the research topic or project important? Who might benefit from the results of your work? What should be done next?

Language and Style

• Finnish-English Dictionary: Tuubi - MOT sanakirjasto
• Specialist glossaries
• Thesauruses (synonyms)
• Monolingual dictionaries (definitions and grammar)
• Collocations dictionaries (natural sounding, correct language)
  
  

• Write the abstract
   
  a)     in the first person                                        I examined the learning outcomes of… (My thesis investigates... My final project is a...)
  b)    or in the third person and the passive voice           This thesis reports on a survey conducted in…(The author studied... The author carried out a survey...)
  
  
• Terminology help
  Finnish-English dictionary: Tuubi - MOT sanakirjasto (link on the left)
  Monolingual dictionaries:
  
  
  
  
  

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  2. Check the terminology

   

  Tuubi.metropolia.fi àMOT sanakirjasto

  Specialist dictionaries and glossaries

  Thesauri / thesaurses (for finding synonyms)
     

  3. Check phrases and idiomatic expressions
  
                        Monoligual dictionaries, e.g.,

  www.dictionary.cambridge.org                                          
  www.m-w.com                     
  www.thefreedictionary.com   

   

  Collocations dictionaries (for finding out, which adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and prepositions typically appear together), e.g.,

   

  Oxford Collocations Dictionary, http://5yiso.appspot.com/

   

  You can also google the expressions “in quotation marks”, and assess the reliability of
  the texts where the expressions were found.

                                                                                                     

  4. Write the abstract in formal academic style.
  
  However, formal does not mean ‘overly complicated’. The sentences
  can be short and simple.

   

  The text should be accessible (easy to understand) and
  cohesive (ideas are logically connected). 

   

  6. Check the spelling and grammar in the text.
  
  To select the proofing language in MS Word 2010:
  Review à Language à Set Proofing Language à English (U.K., for example)
  
  To check the spelling and grammar in MS Word 2010:
  Review à Spelling and Grammar à Change the expressions or Ignore the suggestions.

  7. Final Touches

   

  Send the Finnish and English abstracts (or the whole thesis / project report)

  to the designated English instructor as a Word document (not a pdf) by email.

  When you get the tutor’s comments, edit the text (cf. editing instructions on
  page 6), and send it back to the instructor once more for final approval.

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