Note that citations are punctuated with commas, colons, and periods, and sometimes include quotation marks, parentheses and an abbreviation for page numbers. Follow the punctuation given above exactly for each abstracted work according to its type. Check your abstract for correct sentence structure, verbs, punctuation, capitalization, possessives, agreement in number between subject and verb, and subject and pronoun, as well as spelling. Developing these skills is vital to your training for success in professional work when you graduate and essential to earning honours grades while you are a student at Concordia University. Your sentences combine clear, definite subjects with active, not passive, verbs that communicate the essence of the author's arguments in your own words.
Punctuation is appropriate and an aid to understanding.
The structure of your paragraphs and the order in which you present them shows the logic of the author's reasoning. You present a good summary of the author's main interpretations, ideas, concepts, propositions, and arguments. The important interpretations, ideas, concepts, propositions, and arguments of the author are summarized in the abstract. The subject of each sentence is clear. The meaning of every phrase or sentence is clear.