Where to Publish Presentation
The goal of this workshop is not for you to immediately send something out for publication as soon as the semester ends. It is rather to help you develop a sustainable writing practice that will be with you throughout your professional career. However, in order to create projects that are eventually published, we need to have a sense of what the venues we aim to publish in are looking for. In other words, we need to have an understanding of our audience. In order to introduce you to the many venues available to you, all class members will deliver a 15-minute Powerpoint/Google Slides/Prezi where you:
1. Select a peer-reviewed or trade publication and provide basic information for it: print or online, founding date, the institution that houses it and/or the main editors, how often it publishes, and so on. Because we want to learn about as many publications as possible, no two class members can present about the same publication.
2. Describe the submission requirements and process: What kinds of pieces are they looking for (articles, digital work, non-fiction, etc.)? What are the length requirements? How does one submit? What citation system does the publication require? Do they mention how long it takes for the review process and for a piece to be published after it is accepted? Who keeps the rights to the piece post-publication? Do they mention their acceptance rate?
3. Read three articles published by this publication and report on the following: What kinds of topics do they seem to feature? How formal or informal is the style of the featured writing? Do they seem to favor a kind of methodology, ie. empirical research, or more personal accounts? Is there anything else you noticed about these pieces that was useful to you or that might be useful to others?
NOTE: If your venue is not a publication but something else, like a film festival, for example, contact me so we can adapt the assignment to your venue’s particular requirements.
Assignment Delivery
You will sign up to deliver your 15-minute presentation during a class session. There will be five minutes for questions afterwards. Please make sure to practice your presentation and to stick to the time limit. Working on your ability to deliver your ideas within a given time limit will be great practice for conference presentations, for which you always need to be mindful of time.
Before class time on the day you present, you will upload your presentation to the course’s Google Drive folder titled “‘Where to Publish Presentation.” The name of your presentation should be Where to Publish Presentation, followed by your last name, i.e. Where to Publish Presentation Last Name.
1. Select a peer-reviewed or trade publication and provide basic information for it: print or online, founding date, the institution that houses it and/or the main editors, how often it publishes, and so on. Because we want to learn about as many publications as possible, no two class members can present about the same publication.
2. Describe the submission requirements and process: What kinds of pieces are they looking for (articles, digital work, non-fiction, etc.)? What are the length requirements? How does one submit? What citation system does the publication require? Do they mention how long it takes for the review process and for a piece to be published after it is accepted? Who keeps the rights to the piece post-publication? Do they mention their acceptance rate?
3. Read three articles published by this publication and report on the following: What kinds of topics do they seem to feature? How formal or informal is the style of the featured writing? Do they seem to favor a kind of methodology, ie. empirical research, or more personal accounts? Is there anything else you noticed about these pieces that was useful to you or that might be useful to others?
NOTE: If your venue is not a publication but something else, like a film festival, for example, contact me so we can adapt the assignment to your venue’s particular requirements.
Assignment Delivery
You will sign up to deliver your 15-minute presentation during a class session. There will be five minutes for questions afterwards. Please make sure to practice your presentation and to stick to the time limit. Working on your ability to deliver your ideas within a given time limit will be great practice for conference presentations, for which you always need to be mindful of time.
Before class time on the day you present, you will upload your presentation to the course’s Google Drive folder titled “‘Where to Publish Presentation.” The name of your presentation should be Where to Publish Presentation, followed by your last name, i.e. Where to Publish Presentation Last Name.