CS373 - Better Abstracts
Introduction to Better Abstracts
How to Write an Abstract
Writing a good abstract can be challenging. The following process uses AI-assisted tools to help you quickly generate a first draft.
- Upload the paper to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude. Start by providing your paper to an AI large language model.
- Copy and paste a description of the elements of a good abstract from this website https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/essays/abstract.html into the chat window. This site provides a good description of what an abstract should contain. Using this text will help the model to follow the guidance in the text.
- Ask the chat tool to generate a draft abstract for the uploaded paper using the Koopman rules. The goal here is to have the model create a draft that you can then improve.
- Revise the draft abstract as needed. This is a draft so you will likely want to make changes and adjustments to the output.
- Copy and paste the abstract into the LaTeX source for their paper using the
\begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract}LaTeX environment. Add the abstract to your paper.