Panel Submissions
Note: If you are submitting a paper, follow the guidelines and instructions under: Paper Submissions.
Panel Submission Guidelines
Students, faculty sponsors, and Alumni Epsilon Chapter members* may propose panels on topics of general interest to both the discipline and the Society. Panel presentations may be either 50 minutes or 75 minutes in length and might consider such topics as chapter activities, service projects, service learning, graduate school and/or career options, pedagogical issues surrounding canon formation or assessment, etc.; that is, topics that can best be explored in interactive, round-table discussions. Panels are not meant to be sets of correlated essays. A chapter is permitted a maximum of two panel submissions.
* Sigma Tau Delta members no longer affiliated with a college or university chapter must be members of the Sigma Tau Delta Alumni Epsilon Chapter to present at the convention.
Instructions for Panel Submissions
Online Account Set-Up
- If you registered for the 2009 International Convention or the journal submissions, you already have an account. Your account is the same email address and password.
- If you did not register online for the 2009 International Convention or submit work for the journals, you must first set up an account. Your account name will be your email address. Please make sure this is an email address you will be using over the next six months. All confirmations and follow-up communications will be sent to your email address.
- When you set up your account, you will create your own password. Passwords must contain at least five characters.
Step 1: Authors
- Choose: Submitter Account | Add As Author/Co-Author Sigma Tau Delta only permits one author. The author is the submitter. Other panelists must be listed in a Word document attachment.
- Choose: Continue button.
Step 2: Add Submission
- Topic: choose "Panels" from drop-down list.
- Title: type the title of your panel.
- Create a Word document using your title as the file name.
Your document must contain the following information:
Panel Moderator: List the name, school, and email address for the panel moderator. (The moderator must be a faculty or Alumni Epsilon member. You may also leave this blank and we will select a moderator for the panel.)
Panelists : For each panelist, list their name, school, and email address (maximum of 5 panelists and minimum of 3 panelists).
- Attach your Word document. After you browse and select your Word document file, you must click the Add button.
- Abstract Text: type or copy/paste your abstract. The abstract is not to exceed 750 characters or roughly four sentences. If you copy/paste your abstract from a Word document, it may result in a larger character count than if you type the information directly into the text box.
- Presentation Type: choose "Panels" from the drop-down list.
Step 3: Other Information
- Membership Type
- Chapter State
- Chapter School
- Academic Level
- Sponsor Name
- Sponsor Email Address
Step 4: Review
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Click Continue and review the information for your submission. You may make edits at this time (choose the Edit button). To save edits, click the Accept button at the bottom of the page.
- Click Save Changes.
Additional Submissions
Repeat the submission process to add another submission. You can also exit and add a second submission at a later date.
- On the first screen next to Submission List select Add.
- Repeat Steps 2 through 4 above.
Submission Confirmation
Contributors will receive confirmations and acceptances through email using the email address used to set up your account. Please check your confirmation.
Additional Information
- You can edit your submission(s) through November 20, 2009. To do this, login using your account (email address and password). You will see a list of your submission(s) and corresponding submission number(s).
- Contributors will receive confirmations and acceptances through email using the email address used to set up your account. It is vital to keep your email address for communications.
- Acceptance and denial notifications will be sent out by January 30, 2010.
NOTE: Questions regarding the online submission process should be addressed to sigmaoffice@niu.edu.
Submissions Deadline
The deadline for paper and panel submissions is Friday, November 20, 2009, 11:59 p.m.