Paper Guidelines Please carefully review the following instructions for paper submissions. Papers not strictly adhering to the stated guidelines will be excluded from the prize competition. PAPER PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
An oral presentation of a research paper on any academic topic is to be presented during the conference. The presentation cannot exceed 12 minutes in length, and the use of visual aids is welcome, but not required. To present a paper, you should submit an abstract of 100 words or less at the WT SRC conference registration website. Accepted applications will receive notification by April 15, 2013.
Presentations will be scored and ranked; certificate awards are given for the Paper Presentations. Graduate and undergraduate submissions are judged separately.
Awards for the Writing Competition are listed below.
Additionally, you may compete for cash prizes by submitting a copy of your entire paper for consideration in the Writing Competition (see below). To enter the Writing Competition, you must present a 12-minute (maximum) version your paper in the Paper Presentation Segment listed above.
The Paper Presentation and the Written Competition are scored separately.
WRITING COMPETITION GUIDELINES
Papers not strictly adhering to the stated guidelines will be excluded from the cash award competition.
The paper must primarily reflect the student’s work (rather than the work of a faculty member). Advisors and coauthors will be contacted to ensure this. If this paper has already been published, the student must be the sole author or the primary author with other students as coauthors. Published papers with faculty members as coauthors cannot be entered in the Writing Competition.
The paper's abstract must be submitted through the WT SRC conference registration website indicating that the submission is for the Writing Competition as well as the Paper Presentation portions of the conference. The student will be able to attach their paper to their Paper Presentation application on the registration page.
Other Details:
Format: Double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-pt font, 1-inch margins
Length limitations: 12 pages maximum (including notes, graphs and images). The 12 pages do NOT include the title page, abstract or bibliographic materials.
Title page: The title page shall contain ONLY the title of the paper, name of author and author's email address. No personal identifiers should appear on any other page.
Bibliography/Reference: Citation format should be consistent, and appropriate to the writer’s discipline.
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Your completed paper must be sent as an email attachment (Word document file - do not send a .pdf file) to plockwood@wtamu.edu by April 12, 2013 for inclusion in the Written Competition. Cash Prize Awards for the WRITING COMPETITION: 1st place (1 undergraduate and 1 graduate) - $500 2nd place (1 undergraduate and 1 graduate) - $300 3rd place (1 undergraduate and 1 graduate) - $200
DEADLINE: All abstracts, papers, and entry forms must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 12, 2013.
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