Abstracts

Abstract Draft Guidelines

Include:

• Title
• Motivation and Background
• Question or Goal
• Methods and Data
• Results
• Discussion and Future work

Avoid:

• undefined words or phrases
• vagueness
• sloppy grammar

From the ABRCMS National Conference website: “Your abstract must contain a hypothesis or statement about the problem under investigation, a statement of the experimental methods/methodology used, essential results provided in summary form (even if preliminary), and a conclusion that explains how the work contributes to the hypothesis or statement of problem.”