Kickstart Your Research: Preparing for Honours

UNSW offers a great guide for writing an Honours abstract, as well as examples: https://student.unsw.edu.au/writing-abstracts-honours-theses

This is also a fantastic guide http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/abstracts/

Leedy, Paul D., and Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, Practical Research: Planning and Design(Boston, Pearson, 2013)

Murray, Rowena, How to Write a Thesis, 2^nd ed. (Maidenhead: Open UP, 2006)