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The overview is a quick summary or abstract of the project work, research, journals, report, and research. The overview/ Executive summary should have the main idea you’ll be supporting in your text and it will have only your ideas, and opinions, not the argument and example. You probably don’t put everything in your executive summary, it is only the main concept and GIST of your research and report. Writing the Abstract is the good exercise on summarization you text so that your target audience will easily get the message and the summary is not more than 250 words, it’s up to 300 words only (Andrade, 2010). The main purpose of writing an executive summary is to provide a condense, and clear message to your reader. It should have following things i.e.

  • The overall purpose of the study and the research problem

  • Your ideas, opinion, understanding and finding in the research

  • The basic design of the study

  • Major finding or trends towards as a result of your analysis

In conclusion, the abstract is condense and concrete version of the full text of the research manuscript (Staiger, 1999). The abstract must be as detail as possible within the word count limits specified by journals, articles, and report to which the paper is intended to be submitted.

The introduction is your opportunity to show reader and reviewer why your research topic/ report is worth reading about and why your research, report warrants their attention. Basically, it gives the writer’s intentions towards the attention/reader. It provides the information that is necessary/mandatory in a research for the reader’s to know before moving forward to the other section (Pratt, 2014). An introduction is the first impression of your research. A good introduction presents a broad overview of your research or your thesis and it should convince the reader that is worth reading for them. It establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research being conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information about the topics, stating the purpose of work in the form of research problem supported by hypothesis or set of questions, explaining briefly the methodologies approach used to examine the research problem (John, 2017). In short, a good introduction will provide a solid function and encourage readers to continue on to the main parts of your research paper - the methodology, result, and discussion.

The introduction serves as the roadmap for your research paper; by clearly stating studying background, aims, and hypothesis/ research question. A good introduction provides the reader with a brief overview of your topics and exploitation of your thesis. It should be fresh, engaging and interesting so that only get the reader attention.

References
Andrade, C. (2010). How to write a good abstract for a scientific paper or conference presentation. Indian J Psychiatry. 2010;52:187-90 , 187-190.

John, Z. M. (2017). 10 tips for writing an effective introduction to original research papers. Think Science .

Koopman, P. (2017). "How to Write an Abstract.”. The Writing Center of UNC college Art and Science .

Pratt, C. (2014). How to Write a Good Introduction. The Writing Center @ MSU .

Staiger, D. L. (1999). How to Write a Research Abstract. Office of Graduate Research. The University of Kentucky .