What is an Abstract?
An abstract is a summary of your final project report or thesis.
The English abstract doesn’t need to be a direct translation of the Finnish one.
The main thing is that the abstract
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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 – and 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
What is 'Opinnäytetyö' in English?
AMK
- final project (report)
your study includes an artistic or a development project and a written report reflecting on the process and the results - a Bachelor's thesis
a dissertation reporting on and discussing the results of original research and substantiating a specific view
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Write the abstract into the table on the third page of the thesis / report template.
Title
- Short, clear, informative , and yet it should attract the interest of the reader. and interesting
- Don’t translate the original title word for word, but express it clearly in plain English.
- Write the English Title in Title Case. Metropolia house style: All Words in Upper Case, Except Articles, Conjunctions and Prepositions and the Word And.
Advisors
- Advisor's Name, Academic Title or Job Title (or both), e.g.,
Heikki Heikkilä, M.A.
Marja Marjanen, D.Mus.
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- Introduction: Who has done what?
- Methodology: When, where and how was the research study 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?
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Language and Style
Language Help
- Finnish-English Dictionary : (Tuubi - MOT sanakirjasto, link on the left)
- Specialist dictionaries and glossaries Thesauruses (synonyms)(e.g. A Glossary of Video Editing Terms)
- Collocations dictionaries (which adjectives, nouns, verbs and prepositions can be matched together?)
Oxford Collocations Dictionary - Monolingual dictionaries (definitions and grammar)Collocations dictionaries (natural sounding, correct language)
The Free Dictionary - Google expressions "in quotations marks" and see if the expression is used in relevant and reliable contexts.
Write the abstract
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- in the first person (My thesis investigates... My final project is a...) or
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- in the third person (The author studied... The author carried out a survey...)
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2. Check the terminology
Tuubi.metropolia.fi àMOT sanakirjasto
Specialist dictionaries and glossaries
Thesauri / thesaurses (for finding synonyms)
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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.
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The text should be
- formal, but the sentences should be short and simple
- accessible (easy to read)
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- cohesive (ideas are logically connected)
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Check
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spelling and grammar
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- MS Word 2010:
Review
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- / Language
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- / Set Proofing Language
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Review
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- / Spelling and Grammar
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Final Touches
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- Send
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- the whole report/thesis
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- to
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- your designated English instructor
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- as Word document (not a pdf)
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- When you get the
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- instructor’s comments, edit the text
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- and send it back to
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- her once more for final approval
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