Abstract

This paper presents an effective method of writing an economic paper abstract, appearing either in an academic paper or in an online database. The abstract of a paper needs to be concise, usually written in 100 words or fewer, but dense with information: an informative abstract contains the purpose, methodology, results and conclusions while an indicative abstract contains the purpose and scope of the paper. In an abstract of an economic paper, active voice and simple present tense are preferred and the third person subject or the first person plural subject “we” should be used.