literature abstract examples

The following two examples have been annotated with academic comments. This is to help you understand why they achieved a good 2:1 mark but also, more importantly, how the marks could have been improved.
These final year projects achieved a mark of a high first:

The Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature in Prague in 2010 arrived at the following definition:
Examples of grey literature include: conference abstracts, presentations, proceedings; regulatory data; unpublished trial data; government publications; reports (such as white papers, working papers, internal documentation); dissertations/theses; patents; and policies & procedures.

References:

http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/greyliterature
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/dissertation-examples