Skills for Study Level 2 Teacher's Book - Cambridge University Press

2 Writing an abstract2aAnswers1 What is the context for the research? background2 Why was the research conducted? purpose3 How was the research conducted? method4 What was discovered? results5 What was the contribution of this piece of research to knowledge on the topic?importance6 What was recommended as a result of the research? recommendations2b Students check their answers with a partner.2cAnswers1 background2 purpose3 method4 results (expected)5 importance6 recommendationsExample research proposal abstract 12The aim of this study is to investigate the way that decorating an indoor spacewith plants can affect perceived creativity. 1 While a considerable amount ofresearch has been performed on the effect of indoor plants on productivityand worker mood, there is an absence of research on the relationship betweenplants and creativity. 3 An office decorated with different numbers of plantswill be used to assess participants’ responses to the room. Participants willconduct a series of creative problem-solving tasks and report their ownfeelings of the creative potential of the room. 4 We expect that participants in thestudy will report a greater sense of creativity potential in the rooms decoratedwith a larger number of plants. We also tentatively expect that higher scores onthe problem-solving test will be linked to the rooms decorated with a greaternumber of plants.Example research proposal abstract 21The so-called ‘creativity potential’ of rooms has been investigated in a numberof studies. Research suggests that individuals rate rooms as more or lesssuitable for creative thinking depending on the combination of such thingsas furnishings, colours, light level and indoor plants. 2 The aim of the presentstudy is to investigate more closely the relationship between room colourand perceived creativity potential. 3 80 randomly selected participants will beassigned to one of four offices with different colour schemes (red, yellow, greenand white), and will take part in a series of timed creative problem-solvingtasks. Results will be taken both from scores on the problem-solving tasks, anda post-activity questionnaire to determine participants’ responses to the room.Unit 4 Part E ∙ Reporting in writing 129