• Start with your main thesis at the top.
• Next, read each section of your paper. ...
• Include a summary of your conclusions, as well.
• If you’re writing an abstract for a scientific dissertation, it’s not necessary to include all of your literature review; however, you might include a sentence on how your paper fits ...

To write your introduction, you can break it down into five steps:

• Topic and context: what does the reader need to know to understand the dissertation?
• Focus and scope: what specific aspect of the topic will you address?
• Relevance: why is this research worth doing?
• Aims and objectives: what did you aim to find out and how did you approach it?
• Overview of the structure: what will you cover in each chapter?