a b s t r a c t

abstract?

I had no idea what it is - so I researched it.
Most of what I found was similarly irrelevant
They were all teaching you how to write a businese abstract - and I saw nothing in common between all of them.

then I did find something -
http://research.berkeley.edu/UCDay/abstract.html

so I based my networking essay on this format.

It sums up the idea of an abstract into 4 main points
1/ Motivation/Problem stated
2/ Method/Procedure/Approach
3/Results/Findings/Products
4/ Conclusion/Implications

using the four points I above from my research, I was then able to expand and go on to summarising what the 'paper' is about. Pretty useful stuff.