Abstract

SOTO, Carmiña  and  APARICIO, María José. Quality of the abstracts of doctoral and master theses of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, 2000-2017. Mem. Inst. Investig. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.3, pp.63-71. ISSN 1812-9528.  https://doi.org/10.18004/mem.iics/1812-9528/2019.017.03.63-071.

The thesis abstracts allow readers to quickly know the content of the theses, and represent the institutional visibility, however, the quality of them is not analyzed frequently. Based on this, the objective was to evaluate the quality of the abstracts of the master and doctoral theses of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. The design was documentary, descriptive cross-sectional with analytical components. The analysis unit was constituted by 164 theses. The findings show that the dimensions classified as very good were Quality of the Title and Objectives Explicitation, while for the dimension Consistency between Objective, Result and Title, the quality was acceptable. The results show the need to improve the quality of the abstracts.

Keywords : quality; abstract; thesis; doctorate; master.

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