Fitzgerald, L. Goldberg, J. McElwee, M. Academic Conferences International. Papers must not exceed words in length words for work in progress papers , including abstract, figures, references and appendices. If you have not already done so, please send a short biography of up to 50 words of the presenting author in a separate document, with a photograph if possible.
Before submitting your paper please ensure that it has been carefully read for typographical and grammatical errors. If English is not your first language, please have your paper proof-read by an English speaking person.
Papers will be returned if the standard of English is not considered to be good enough for publication. Papers should submitted as a. Every conference paper is unique since the research it presents should be unique as well. However, this basic process for how to write a conference paper will help you create a working draft.
Before you begin writing the conference paper, make sure you know what you are hoping to communicate. What is the key element of your research?
What is your thesis statement? Everything else you write will need to support this purpose statement. The key to making your conference paper engaging is tailoring it to your audience. You need to know your audience well in order to do this. Ask yourself a few questions about them.
Take a few minutes to jot down some notes about your audience. Connecting your research to the concerns and needs of the audience will help keep them engaged.
Generate the outline of your paper while you are preparing the oral presentation. Making an outline at this point will do two important things. Within the first paragraph, tell the reader what you intend to share or prove. From the outline, begin writing your first draft.
As you write, include a more detailed description of the actual work that was done. These details are often minimized during an oral presentation but should be fully detailed in the actual paper reporting the results.
Additionally, you need to support your claims with data in your conference paper. These supporting details will add strength to your argument and keep the reader engaged in the work. While I am trained in geography and anthropology, I believe much of what I share here could be useful to budding humanists and natural scientists, too. In the spirit of efficiency celebrated by conference presentations themselves, I will organize these ideas in outlined bulleted form.
I hope these reflections contribute toward making academic conferences a more rewarding experience for first-time presenters. At the same time, these are formalized rituals with norms and conventions, and these guidelines are meant to encourage one to envision ways to express inventiveness and brio within the bounds of those tacit rules.
Alessandro Angelini is a writing fellow at the Bernard L. This essay was adapted from one published on cac. Angelini is also a Ph. Expand comments Hide comments. We have retired comments and introduced Letters to the Editor. Share your thoughts ». About Contact Subscribe. College Adopt One-Stop Shops. Career Advice. Art of the Conference Paper. By Alessandro Angelini. November 3, Find a suitable conference Sign up for e-mail listservs for subfields and organizations you are interested in.
Throughout the year you will get call-for-paper announcements offering panel discussions to be a part of. Pay attention to the deadline and guidelines. Read their panel description closely. Often they will have a certain rubric within which they are working, with a theoretical approach either tacitly or explicitly signaled. There are many regional and graduate-student conferences organized for people still early in their careers.
If you are at the dissertation proposal stage or still formulating your project, these kinds of events are a good idea. Many conferences also accept individual papers. You run a greater risk of not getting your paper accepted or getting stuck in a hodgepodge potpourri panel like I was recently if you opt for this approach.
So, too, can a truly awful presentation. Having watched her fair share of terrible academic talks, as well as excellent ones, Farah Mendlesohn, professor of literary history at Anglia Ruskin University , thought she would draw together some tips for those about to hit the conference circuit.
Her guide, put together with her husband Edward James, emeritus professor of medieval history at University College Dublin , has proved immensely popular, downloaded more than 5, times. Mendlesohn, an expert on fantasy literature, admits that she discreetly took out a novel after 10 minutes as the paper was more or less unintelligible.
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