Under cover of night, volunteers with a shared purpose criss-cross their city. They’re not revolutionaries; they’re people who love grammar. Inserting accents, commas and question marks, and removing erroneous ones, they correct the language shortcomings of poets in training and unrequited lovers.
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Conjunctions are one of the nine primary parts of speech in English. They are so useful! They’re function words – they live to serve: to join, coordinate and contrast. Complete control of these beauties will totally transform our writing.
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Given the time, effort and resources that go into great research, it would be a pity to drop the ball in the abstract – in light of its many key roles. A “taste of the pie”, it should represent a manuscript 100%. Effectively summarising research usually involves repeated rewriting. Because time pressure is always a factor, the risk is that the abstract is rushed.
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