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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882 by seanwilson on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:27PM (#9409541)
What do you think of academic papers that all start with an abstract/tldr?

It's not about low attention spans, it's about there only being so many hours in a day. It's about helping people find what they want to read because there is just too much content being produced every day.

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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy in 1882 by kragen on Monday April 20, 2015 @04:24PM (#9410651)
The first six words of the comment to which you are replying are, "Summaries are great, and extremely useful." That's what I think about the abstracts of academic papers. Academic paper summaries are not always exemplary, but they are usually very good. The only genre of writing I know that regularly has better summarization than the academic paper is the legal brief.
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