At the beginning of a lesson students are usually asked to provide a brief definition of an abstract. They can do it
individually or in pairs in a written form and then they share it with another pair. Afterwards, the teacher can ask
them to read their definition to the other classmates or they can compare their definition with the definition provided
by their teacher from the APA Style (2010), which states that an abstract is a brief, comprehensive summary of the
content of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly, and, like a title, it enables
abstracting and information services to index and retrieve article