Sample Submissions

Abstract Writing Tips

Abstract pointers:

• Grab the readers’ interest in the study with your first sentence.
• Clearly and concisely describe the study question/problem.
• Summarize the study methods in an organized fashion.
• State the expected results or actual results in a balanced manner.
• Refrain from overly technical, discipline-specific language in the abstract.
• Point out the usefulness of the study results.

Sample Abstracts

Papers

• Factors in Underemployment in Rural Pennsylvania 
• Harmful or Harmless: The Effects of Television Usage on Society’s Perception of the Black Population 
• Perceived Virtues and Societal Stereotypes of Relational and Agentic Achievement Across Race and Gender
• Effective Management of End-of-Life Symptoms: Use of the Comfort Care Kit with Hospice Patients 
• Identification of Oils from Viable and Nonviable Cherrybark Oak Acorns
• Wassily Kandinsky: Twice Foreign
• The Medieval Musician Carvings in Beverley Minster: Fact or Fiction?
• The Lens of Science: A Visual Exploration 
• Autistic Children in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms: Strategies for Teachers and Parents
• Building Green
• Post WWII Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy: A Case Study of Grove Methodist Church (1948-1959)
• Out of Shape? An Evaluation of the Pennsylvania State Health Improvement Plan’s Community Partnership and Major Health Issues Facing Urban and Rural Areas
• Expression of Host Macrophage Cytokines on Infection with Various Mycobacterium avium WildType and ssGPL Mutant Strains
• Femininity as a Continuum and Gender as a Choice: the Socialization that Separates the Two

Posters

• How Lithium Disrupts Circadian Rhythms for Cadmium Toxicity in Paramecium 
• Playing for Keeps: An Examination of the Fit of New Graduate Nurse Orientation Programs to the Needs of Graduating Baccalaureate Seniors
• Ceramic Types and Cordage Analysis for the Johnston and Other Sites
• Supplemental Instruction: Effect of Attendance on Outcome

Sample Presentations for Papers

• Factors in Underemployment in Rural Pennsylvania 

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