Scholarship Resources for Faculty

Brenda Happell explains the role of the abstract in conference presentations and provides a practical guide to help nurses through the process of writing one. She also gives tips on what to avoid.

This article is for nurse scholars and nursing students who are writing abstracts for poster or oral presentations. It offers guidance on organizing the elements of an abstract and storytelling principles to demonstrate "how a potentially dreary abstract can be created to captivate a reader." Reference below.

This is a list of articles with tips, instructions, and advice on writing abstracts for conferences and presentations. The are links to full-text versions of the articles. At the top of the list is a link to a folder with full-text PDFs of the articles, where available.