Requirements to the abstract in accordance with GOST

An abstract is one of the forms of a boundary or final certification. Any student who studies at a secondary school or university, from the first year acquainted with this type of educational work. Therefore, you need to know the requirements for the essay and necessarily apply them in practice.

This form of control is an independent research work. Therefore, it is unacceptable to simply copy text from a book, or download from the Internet ready-made work. The student should try to reveal the essence of the problem, bring the existing points of view, and justify his own view of it. Therefore, the requirements for the essay refer, first of all, to the design and its content, which should be logically stated, and differ in problem-thematic character. In addition to clearly stated and structured material, it is necessary to have conclusions on each paragraph and common throughout the work.

The regulatory requirements for writing an abstract are based on the following principles:

• It is recommended to start with the correct wording of the topic and setting of basic goals and objectives.
• Subsequently, the selection of the necessary material begins. The most important thing is "do not be greedy" and remove those data that can not reveal the essence of the goal. You can not be guided by the principle: "There will be a lot of work, that means I'll get a good mark". This is incorrect, since the requirements for the GOST abstract not only limit its volume, but also rigidly determine the structure.
• The introduction to the essay also has a strict number of components. First, there must be an urgency in which to substantiate your choice of this topic, as well as the object, subject, purpose, objectives and methods of research. Especially neat it is necessary to be at statement of the research purpose and problems which in the abstract it is necessary to realize all. Second, to include the practical and theoretical significance of the work.
• In the main part, the text must be divided into paragraphs and subparagraphs, at the end of each one, a short conclusion should be made, setting out his point of view. The presence of fuzzy language, as well as speech and spelling errors, is inadmissible
• Preparation of the abstract should be carried out on the basis of those scientific materials that are relevant for today. Naturally, this applies to the list of used literature. It is recommended to decorate it with the following information: author, title, place and year of publication, name of the publisher and number of pages.

Requirements for the abstract on registration are the following:

• Do this is recommended only in accordance with the rules that are imposed in a particular educational institution. It's about the title page, the list of literature and the appearance of the page.
• Particular attention should be paid to the design of citations, which are included in the text in quotes, and then in brackets is given the ordinal number of the source from the list of literature and through the semicolon page number.
• In accordance with GOST 9327-60, text, tables and illustrations must necessarily be in A4 format.
• Abstract only on the computer. The text is aligned to the width, the line spacing is one and a half, the font is Times New Roman (14 pt.), The margins are lower and upper - 20 mm, the left - 30, and the right - 10 mm, and paragraph indentation - 1.5 cm.
• In the text, it is necessary to focus on certain terms, concepts and formulas with the help of underlining, italics and bold font. In addition, the names of chapters, paragraphs and subparagraphs should be highlighted, but the points at the end are not put. Existing enumerations are issued in the form of a numbered or bulleted list.

In general, the requirements for the abstract, which are available in the GOST, must be observed.