Conference Abstract Guidelines
Please submit your abstract by Sept. 19, 2025.
Biographies
(100 words or less) for each author
Structured Abstract
(500 words or less), including:
Talks and Posters:
- Title
- Purpose (~100 words or less): A summary of your work's purpose. Depending on the structure of your work, this might entail the motivation or rationale, the research questions or hypotheses, the project aims, the thesis statement, etc.
- Main findings (~100 words or less): A summary of the major findings or conclusions of your work. For works-in-progress or explorations of concept, you may alternately summarize future work or major questions you intend to explore in dialogue with other conference attendees. For methods or resource submissions, you may alternately summarize the usefulness or worth of the tool/technique you wish to present.
- Description (~200 words or less): A summary of the content of your submission. Depending on your submission type and the structure of your work, this may entail a description of methods, logic, data presented, data analysis; or a narrative of your work; or the resources or demonstrations you intend to provide.
- Relevance and Takeaways (~100 words or less): How is your work relevant to members within the community of UC Davis' scholarly educators? What information, knowledge, thoughts, insights, or new questions do you intend for this audience to take away from your presentation?
For examples of previous structured abstracts, view a past abstract book.