WiPP Guidelines

Posted on September 25, 2007

If you are planning to present research at RNF, here are some guidelines (thanks to Paul Butler for this).

Please plan to arrive by 8:30 a.m. to find your morning table. When RNF begins at 9:00 a.m., we’ll have two or three plenary speakers who will discuss their research.

Following the plenary speakers, we’ll have our morning Work-in-Progress tables. The tables, guided by one or more Table Discussion Leaders (DLs), are intended to be conversations about WiPPs’ current research projects. Each table has at least one DL with broad knowledge of the field as well as four to five WiPPs. Unless you made a special request, we will place you at a table both in the morning and the afternoon.

Before the afternoon tables get underway, we’ll hold an Editors’ Roundtable, where editors from leading journals in the field talk about the kinds of articles they’d like you to submit for publication consideration. You’ll have an opportunity to speak with the editors about your article ideas before we move into our afternoon Work-in-Progress tables.

Keep in mind that the conversations about your research at each table are not formal presentations. They are dialogic in nature, with the DL and other WiPPs offering feedback and helping you think productively about your project. (NOTE: There is no audio-visual equipment available for your use.) With this format in mind, you should plan to take the following steps to prepare to talk about your research:

1. Count on approximately 15 minutes total to present and receive feedback on your research. If you can present your work as concisely as possible (in approximately five or six minutes), that will allow others at the table to give you thorough feedback. Remember: Please do not read your paper. This is intended to be a conversation!

2. Prepare a one-page handout with your name and contact information (so others can contact you after RNF). On the sheet, write three to five questions that you’d like those at your table to try to answer for you.

3. Also write a brief (one paragraph) abstract that describes your project and include that on your one-page sheet. It would also be extremely helpful to include a List of Works Cited and Works Consulted. If this proves too large for the one-sided sheet, you may want to print it on the reverse side.

4. Make approximately 15 copies of your one-page (single- or double-sided) handout, which should be enough for the morning and afternoon WiPP tables.

We look forward to seeing you in Louisville on April 6th for the Research Network Forum at CCCC.

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