Presentations

The topic presentations made by our classmates were really interesting. But I didn't get almost all of presentations, what they were about. It is because of my bad listening skills; and because of my classmates accents that are totally weird for me.
Nevertheless, at least I had understood my own topic, which was comparing three different research work sections. The topic name was "Abstracts, introductions and discussions: How far do they differ in style?".
To be honest, till this topic presentation I didn't know the real differences of these three sections.
Abstract is the section of the text, where author should be as precise as possible. It has tough word limitation, and that's the main difficulty of writing the abstract section. Hartley says that still many authors find it difficult to write abstract for the research. Some authors even write it incorrectly. Reader of abstract section faces not the less difficulty, while reading it. Hartley's short research defines abstract section as the most compounded and least perceptible section among these three.
Regarding introduction part of research, Hartley finds it easier to write it and read. As introduction part can contain much more words than abstract, it can be slightly more detailed.
The discussion part can be much more extended than the previous two sections. Consequently, it is most understandable part for reader. Also it is least difficult part for author to write. As in this part you are free to write in your own and convenient style, authors dig quite deeper into research topic in these section. Hartley's work define this section as the easiest part to write and read.
If I had more time, I would investigate in related to these topic. To be more exact, I would like to know all the methods and software algorithms that define difficulty and vocabulary level of the text. Because in Hartley's research work, authors use software that is fairly simple. That's why, Hartley says that his research results are not absolute and not applicable every where. There definitely must be some more complicated methods and algorithms that define difficulty and perceptibility of text, and also the difficulty level of vocabulary.