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I have a question. I am scheduled to give a paper presentation on a topic in September and so I am currently working on the paper for the presentation (it's based on a paper I previously wrote so it's not like I'm doing it from scratch). We are supposed to send in the paper some weeks before the date of the presentation, and I am wondering if what I am supposed to send in is supposed to be my presentation in verbatim or if it's supposed to be my paper from which I will give the presentation. Make sense?Basically whenever I have given in-class presentations of papers I always tweak it; cut out some information, add informal transitional sentences that I couldn't get away with in a paper, etc. When you submit conference papers, I don't know if it's traditionally supposed to be a transcript of the exact presentation or a more formal paper. Anyone know?
If this is a typical “call for papers” thing, you send your finished draft to the conference committee for them to preview with a synopsis of what you will be discussing. This is so they can write a blurb about what you will be presenting to the audience in the program.
So basically what you are saying is that I submit a normal paper and then separately specify what aspect of the paper I will present…?
Well I just presented my paper this morning at the conference, and I think it went pretty well. I spent many hours preparing for it, so I'm glad it's done. However, during the break another student came up to me and said she had a hard time following basically because I didn't show a map of the particular area I was discussing on more than one slide. I think I explained to her that I had consulted with my adviser on the paper about it who told me I should basically presume people knew the terms and that I didn't need to explain them, but that I could see her point. It seemed odd that she would introduce herself to me to give me that unsolicited feedback, but oh well. I thought it was kind of ironic/interesting given the conversation we've been discussing briefly in that other thread about "writing to a particular audience".
Remember I said not to assume people know what you're talking about. 😉 But yet at a conference like that, you would expect those who attend to be fairly familiar with what you're presenting. Maybe she just wanted to meet you. 😉
Well I have good news in that I was notified that a paper abstract I submitted for a conference in Missisippi in the Fall was accepted! So I will be preparing for it in the coming months. It's related to the paper I gave last Fall, but different. This one will be on the architecture of two different Venetian churches that were built after plagues hit northern Italy ~1576 and ~1630.
