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I'm a PhD candidate in English literature, and I'm getting ready to apply to conferences and such. I actually submitted a conference abstract for a specific major conference in my field (T.S. Eliot Society), and was notified the other day that it had been accepted, and that I would be able to present it at the conference.
This is a general question about preparing a conference abstract. I haven't had much experience with conference abstracts in general, but how I usually set up the abstract is two have two paragraphs introducing some contextual material, and then have the last paragraph discuss what my paper will do specifically, including conclusions. I modeled it off one professor's successful conference abstracts.
When I sent it to a different professor a few days ago, she gave me some really good suggestions (i.e., I'm too wordy, have too many long sentences). But one of them was to change the structure of my abstract so that the opening would say "My paper is about such and such." Is what I did necessarily a wrong thing? The abstract was successful in this instance, but I'm planning on applying to another conference in a different field (music), and I was wondering if there were specific conference abstract conventions that I should be aware of.
This is a general question about preparing a conference abstract. I haven't had much experience with conference abstracts in general, but how I usually set up the abstract is two have two paragraphs introducing some contextual material, and then have the last paragraph discuss what my paper will do specifically, including conclusions. I modeled it off one professor's successful conference abstracts.
When I sent it to a different professor a few days ago, she gave me some really good suggestions (i.e., I'm too wordy, have too many long sentences). But one of them was to change the structure of my abstract so that the opening would say "My paper is about such and such." Is what I did necessarily a wrong thing? The abstract was successful in this instance, but I'm planning on applying to another conference in a different field (music), and I was wondering if there were specific conference abstract conventions that I should be aware of.