How to write a good abstract

If you are asking this question, we have several suggestions for you. Johan Rooryck and Vincent van Heuven have drawn up concise and very helpful Guidelines. You will find them in pdf here (with the permission of the author).

 

Further reading:

The LSA has a useful webpage on model abstracts:

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/model-abstracts

You can also look at the abstracts written by SLE Awards winners: “Best presentation Awards SLE 2019”. They have been highly rated by our Programme Committee members.