Last Friday February 28, 2025, graduate program director Hamid Ouali hosted a successful workshop on Abstract Writing. The focus was on abstracts for linguistics conferences.
Dr. Ouali reviewed the elements of a successful abstract.
Faculty members Nick Fleisher and Anne Pycha walked through the components of their own abstracts, and Glenn Starr offered an excellent set of tips for a compelling abstract (create tension!).
Doctoral student Aisha Fuddah also walked through several of her own conference abstracts, one of which won a best-of-conference award.
Attendees then broke into small groups and read a series of actual abstracts, rating them on a scale from 1 to 5. Some got difficult treatment from the crowd. Others were clear winners.
As Aisha said, “If I can do it, you can do it, too.”
