vendredi 13 mars 2015

should I define two essential terms in abstract?


A big theme of the novelty in our paper relies on distinguishing among two things which are often conflated, or at least a bit garbled together in some non-standard way per application, within our community. It'd be helpful to explicitly label and identify how we will use these (original, not repurposed) terms ASAP in the paper to bring our readers on board with how we're tackling the problem.


It'd be useful to have the terms loaded with our meaning to use them in our abstract, so useful I'm willing to devote the first two sentences of our abstract to this purpose.


Is this appropriate? I haven't seen it done. I'm also worried it's a bit of a buzzkill / alienating to read an abstract which throws new language at you instantly. If may be helpful to know my target audience is engineers and physicians.





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