This post describes my outline/structure for a technical paper. I have found a fairly specific structure works best for abstracts and introductions. For the
U. Menne. (2017)cite arxiv:1705.05253Comment: The present text is a version with additional references but without figures of a note compiled for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. (v4: considerably expanded introduction, 6 pages).
A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. Proceedings of the First Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, page 87-102. Aalborg, Aalborg Universitetsforlag, (2006)