Abstract: “Writing informative abstract is challenging especially for novice student writers due to word limit. Until today, there is no tool in helping writers write good abstract. In this paper, a framework was proposed to check the quality of engineering abstract with two important criteria, which are unique keyword and principal move. The execution of the proposed framework on engineering corpus shows the capability of the proposed work in detecting essential moves according to Santos’ Move. The obtained Abstract Quality Index (AQI) values show that the quality of abstract could be evaluated in a more detailed manner. The findings from the engineering abstract corpus yield that shorter length of abstract with right keywords produced higher value of AQI”

Keywords: Engineering abstract checker, abstract quality index, Santos’ Move.