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Ah, spring–when it’s time to start securing next winter’s conference plans, usually by pulling together abstracts in response to various Calls for Papers. We’ve written a fair amount on conferences in the past, of course, with Erin in particular offering a helpful tactical approach to “The Conference Abstract”.
Today, Catherine Baker does everyone a terrific service by breaking down, in specific detail, “How to Write a Conference Abstract.” She explains a structure she always uses, rooting it an abstract from a few years back, along with a discussion of how the abstract does/does not live up to the idealized structure:
