Como formular um "Abstract"

Dos and Don’ts in Abstracts
Ten Thoughts After Reading Hundreds of Abstracts
by Mary M. Shirley
1. Don’t try to play baseball in a football game If you’re writing your abstract for institutional groups, such as the Ronald Coase Institute or the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), then write about institutions. An institution-free abstract will not be accepted by these organizations, no matter how brilliant.
2. Do explain, define, clarify.
Assume the reviewers know nothing. Explain your conceptual framework, methodology, and data. Define your terms and acronyms. Clarify the ideas you cite, don’t just label them Plato’s hypothesis or Dante’s model or Snoopy’s rule. Write for Paul Zak’s Mother. (Paul Zak says he always writes so that his Mom will understand him.)
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10. Do theory, but only if you do it well.
An empirical paper stands on four feet: even if the theory is weak or unoriginal, the data can be interesting, the methodology clever, and the story intriguing. A purely theoretical paper stands on only one foot: a theory that has to be novel, interesting and clearly relevant to important institutional issues -- a far more difficult balancing act.
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