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What do you think of academic papers that all start with an abstract/tldr? It's not about low attention spans, it's about there only being so many hours in a d
by seanwilson 12y ago
What do you think of academic papers that all start with an abstract/tldr?
It's not about low attention spans, it's about there only being so many hours in a day. It's about helping people find what they want to read because there is just too much content being produced every day.
- kragen 12y agoThe first six words of the comment to which you are replying are, "Summaries are great, and extremely useful." That's what I think about the abstracts of academic papers. Academic paper summaries are not always exemplary, but they are usually very good. The only genre of writing I know that regularly has better summarization than the academic paper is the legal brief.