Recommendations: give suggestions for future work or implementation.Evaluation: evaluate how well solution solves problem.Solution: describe the solution – its key characteristics, fundamental principles, and how it solves the problem.Problem: define the problem that the paper addresses.Given the generic structure of an engineering research paper (See Online Handbook/Accurate Documentation / Conducting & Understanding Secondary Research in Engineering), this would typically include: They should contain all key elements of the report.However, you should not cut and paste from your report some readers will read both, and will recognize copied sentences. Practically speaking, this means that the documents are purely summary: they should not contain any information that is not in the report. In other words, the readers of your summary may not read the report it also means that the readers of the report may not have read your summary. These summaries are both stand-alone documents, meaning that they should be thought of as being independent from the report.What they share: is this specific role in the document, content, and general structure: What the main conclusions of the document are.Whether or not the document is relevant.Audiences use these summaries to determine: The abstract and executive summary are key components because they allow readers to quickly decide whether or not they need / want to read the entire document.
