Chapter 16
Being Concise: Abstracts and Executive Summaries
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using AI as your abstracts and summaries assistant
Generating precise prompts
Fashioning an abstract
Creating an executive summary
Abstracts and executive summaries are nuggets of wisdom that distill complex ideas into bite-sized brilliance. They’re the antithesis of information overload, swooping in to save readers from drowning in a tsunami of “infoglut.” They’re like the little black dresses of the literary world — elegant, versatile, and oh-so-stylish. In a world that moves at the speed of a million tweets per minute, we could all use a little brevity.
Abstracts and executive summaries are like movie trailers. Just as you can’t make the trailer without first making the full-length film, you can’t create an abstract or executive summary before writing the entire document.
Using AI as Your Assistant in Writing Abstracts and Executive Summaries
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