- Set up a title page Links to an external site. using APA documentation style format and, then, write a hypothetical abstractL inks to an external site. on any specific social issue in the United States, which you have identified.
Example :
Types of abstracts
Abstracts can be informative and descriptive.
Descriptive abstracts describe the work being
abstracted. They are more like an outline of the work
and are usually very short – 100 words or less.
The majority of abstracts written at the University of
Melbourne are informative. Informative abstracts act
as substitutes for the actual papers as all the key
arguments and conclusions are presented; specifically,
the context and importance of the research, reasons for
methods, principal results and conclusions
Abstracts can be informative and descriptive.
Descriptive abstracts describe the work being
abstracted. They are more like an outline of the work
and are usually very short – 100 words or less.
The majority of abstracts written at the University of
Melbourne are informative. Informative abstracts act
as substitutes for the actual papers as all the key
arguments and conclusions are presented; specifically,
the context and importance of the research, reasons for
methods, principal results and conclusions
Examples of abstracts
Example abstract 1: History/ Social Science
Julie Pham (2001) “Their War: The Perspective of the
South Vietnamese Military in Their Own Words”
Example abstract 1: History/ Social Science
Julie Pham (2001) “Their War: The Perspective of the
South Vietnamese Military in Their Own Words”
Despite the vast research by Americans on the Vietnam
War, little is known about the perspective of South
Vietnamese military, officially called the Republic of
Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF). The overall image that
emerges from the literature is negative: lazy, corrupt,
unpatriotic, apathetic soldiers with poor fighting spirits.
This study recovers some of the South Vietnamese
military perspective for an American audience through
qualitative interviews with 40 RVNAF veterans now
living in San José, Sacramento, and Seattle, home to
three of the top five largest Vietnamese American
communities in the nation. An analysis of these
interviews yields the veterans’ own explanations that
complicate and sometimes even challenge three widely
held assumptions about the South Vietnamese military:
1) the RVNAF was rife with corruption at the top ranks,
hurting the morale of the lower ranks; 2) racial relations
between the South Vietnamese military and the
Americans were tense and hostile; and 3) the RVNAF
was apathetic in defending South Vietnam from
communism. The stories add nuance to our
understanding of who the South Vietnamese were in
the Vietnam War. This study is part of a growing body
of research on non-American perspectives of the war.
In using a largely untapped source of Vietnamese
history; oral histories with Vietnamese immigrants; this
project will contribute to future research on similar
topics.
War, little is known about the perspective of South
Vietnamese military, officially called the Republic of
Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF). The overall image that
emerges from the literature is negative: lazy, corrupt,
unpatriotic, apathetic soldiers with poor fighting spirits.
This study recovers some of the South Vietnamese
military perspective for an American audience through
qualitative interviews with 40 RVNAF veterans now
living in San José, Sacramento, and Seattle, home to
three of the top five largest Vietnamese American
communities in the nation. An analysis of these
interviews yields the veterans’ own explanations that
complicate and sometimes even challenge three widely
held assumptions about the South Vietnamese military:
1) the RVNAF was rife with corruption at the top ranks,
hurting the morale of the lower ranks; 2) racial relations
between the South Vietnamese military and the
Americans were tense and hostile; and 3) the RVNAF
was apathetic in defending South Vietnam from
communism. The stories add nuance to our
understanding of who the South Vietnamese were in
the Vietnam War. This study is part of a growing body
of research on non-American perspectives of the war.
In using a largely untapped source of Vietnamese
history; oral histories with Vietnamese immigrants; this
project will contribute to future research on similar
topics.