Guiding Question:
What do I want readers to remember?

Learning Objectives

• construct conclusions that foreground contribution;

• communicate significance without overclaiming;

• write effective research titles;

• construct concise abstracts;

• select meaningful keywords.

Mentor Reading

Revisit four components of Furberg & Silseth (2022):

Title → Abstract → Introduction → Conclusion

Topics

• Conclusions versus summaries

• Returning to the research problem

• Scholarly contribution

• Implications for research, policy, and practice

• Future research

• Titles

• Structured and unstructured abstracts

• Keywords and discoverability

Workshop — The Paper in 60 Seconds

Answer:

1. What problem did I address?

2. What did I do?

3. What did I find?

4. What does it mean?

5. Why does it matter?

Transform these responses into an abstract. Compare 5–6 titles and abstracts from your target journal.

Submit:

• three possible titles;

• abstract;

• 4–6 keywords;

• conclusion.