Abstract Writing Workshop with Diti Bhadra

Writing abstracts for conferences can seem like a daunting task, especially when you have pages and pages of a paper that needs to be compressed into a tight, readable two pages that also has to be interesting enough to hold the attention of reviewers. In this very hands-on abstract writing workshop, we will demystify the process by analyzing what are the tangible components of a good abstract. Working in groups, we will deconstruct accepted abstracts from high-profile conferences and learn from them, we will discuss what elements of our research we should highlight in abstracts, and discuss how best to finetune the process of seeing our research abstractly and from the point of view of other scholars in the field.

Diti Bhadra is a formal semanticist with interfacing interests in pragmatics, syntax, typology, and cognitive science. She has worked on a variety of topics including modality, evidentiality, questions, discourse particles, embedding and complementation, disjunction, negative polarity items. She works primarily on South Asian languages and does cross-familial and cross-linguistic fieldwork (funded by the NSF) across the region.

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