It’s that time again – the deadline for the next big conference in your field is fast approaching, and you are staring down a blank page. Where to start? How to make your abstract stand out and get noticed?
I recently had the opportunity to review conference abstracts for a major conference in our field. After reading over 50 abstracts for our session, the differences between outstanding abstracts and forgettable or insignificant ones became pretty clear. As I tried to articulate these thoughts for myself to evaluate the abstracts more consistently, I thought I should write it down for the benefit of the students that I supervise. I haven’t posted anything on here in a long time (sorry!), so then I also thought I would share it with the wider world in case it would be interesting for more of you.
Here are the most important things that I look for when evaluating conference abstracts:
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