Research
Benefits of Constructing an Abstract and a Capstone Poster
An abstract refers to the summary of a dissertation that contains the purpose, scope, content, results, and conclusion of the research work. On the other hand, the capstone poster is the summary that summarizes the findings in a dissertation concisely to generate a discussion or publicize a research work. The capstone poster usually comprises a mixture of graphs and tables with a brief text. The benefits of constructing an abstract and a capstone poster are allowing writers and readers of dissertations to decide whether the research finding is worth their time to read or reject through selection and indexing. Thus an abstract and a capstone poster should contain keywords and phrases that show the information in the dissertation.
Abstract and capstone posters enable readers to decide if they should read the entire dissertation. Readers use these features to see if the findings interest them or relate to the research they are working on (Bloomberg & Volpe, 2018). Instead of relying on thousands of articles, readers rely on the posters and abstracts to quickly decide if the dissertation is pertinent. Moreover, readers use these two features to gauge the complexity and sophistication of a piece of a dissertation.
Consequently, abstract and capstone posters enable researchers to remember key findings in the dissertation. Even after completing the reading, readers often keep abstract and posters to help remind them of the sources which support the discussions and conclusions in the texts (Bloomberg & Volpe, 2018). Because capstone posters and abstract contain complete bibliographic citations, and thus helpful when researchers begin writing their pieces of work and cite sources.
Abstracts and capstone posters, also enable readers to understand a dissertation by acting as an outline of key points of the content (Bloomberg & Volpe, 2018). Just like any other research and reading strategies, these features help readers to anticipate what finding is in the dissertation, thus it helps readers to get an overview of the text making reading more efficient and simpler.
Also, abstracts and capstone posters enable readers to index dissertations findings for cross-referencing and quick recovery. Indexing simplifies researching information, through the use of keywords, thus enabling researchers to find the useful dissertations they require for their research. Besides, cross-referencing abstracts helps in introducing new finding areas that researchers might be interested in researching.
References
Bloomberg, L. D., & Volpe, M. (2018). Completing your qualitative dissertation: A road map from beginning to end. Sage Publications.