Day 5: Revising Your Abstract Revisit your abstract and revise it. You can do this with your reviewer's comments in mind, or with various models in mind. This abstract is going to serve multiple ways, so be sure to do this exercise. You can revise you in it again later as well, as you proceed with your revision process, but it will be easier to revise then if you have something solid now.
For those in the humanities, keep the abstract short. It's true that conferences will let submitted abstracts balloon up to 200 or 250 words, but it is better to get in the habit of writing shorter abstracts, around 150 words. Shorter abstracts are more useful to editors, more compelling to peer reviewers, and less likely to have problems.