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Date Posted: 14:17:48 08/28/10 Sat Hi everybody! Here is our Part I, including question 3 that was answered by our friend Tania! See what you all think, and please give suggestions. Now we all are going to concentrate in finishing part 2 and 3. 1-In a conference, what is the role of a “keynote speakers” and who are invited to be keynote speakers? A keynote speaker is someone responsible for lecturing and usually is the person who supports the major theme in a conference. A keynote speaker is the person who presents the issues of primary interest to a group f people. A good keynote speaker is able to keep people’s attention on the speech and on the event. When people gather for a meeting or in a conference, they tend to be easily distracted with their own issues and daily routines. So generally, the job of a keynote speaker is to keep the audience focused on the event. In order for a person to be considered as keynote speaker in an event, he or she needs to have certain qualities such as; be well known in the field that he or she are supposed to give the speech, be someone with a respectable name due to previous accomplishment and be highly skilled as a public speaker. The role of a keynote speaker is to be the moderator or the chairman of an event. He or she that is performing as a keynote speaker is the one who controls the tone of an event. A keynote speaker is usually included to present a conference, and often is someone from the academic environment or sometimes someone who is known widely from other field. 2- What type of communication sessions are there in conferences? Conferences are organized either by a scientific society or by a group of researches with a common interest. Conferences are usually filled with many presentations and those individual presentations tend to be concise, short and with a time span that varies. They are usually followed by a discussion where the audience is able to participate. Presenting at an academic conference it requires an individual to submit an Abstract of his or her research, each proposal abstract should be written to attend the requirements of each type of session. In order for a participant to be part in a conference, the proposal submitted needs evaluation and approval by a team of reviewers. Now it is important to give a brief description of some of the communication sessions that are usually presented in a conference: Colloquia can be defined as a lecture given by someone about his or her work in a certain academic field, followed up by a discussion. Demonstrations are presentations that enlighten attendees with the latest achievements or explain how a research works. A demonstration tends to be structured in a classroom style where there is an explanation about given by the demonstrator and the attendees can usually participate just like students. Panels are structured to promote an academic presentation of a research. They are formed by two or more panelists and a discussant or chair person, who will promote and coordinate the process. The panelists are introduced and then usually present their speech in a limited time. Most panels have a discussant who will listen the lecture of each participant, and then after respond to that by making questions or giving feedbacks. Papers can be submitted as an individual proposal, in a pre selected group or in a group of papers written by different author as mutipaper session. The abstract of a paper should contain the focus of the paper and how it contributes to the body of knowledge in the field of evaluation. Those papers are usually read aloud at a conference, sometimes with the audiovisual equipment, with the main purpose to show specific aspects achieved by a researcher. Posters are one-on-one discussion of a research. It displays detailed results of a research in a formal graphic presentation. Just like Papers, an abstract of a poster should detail the focus of the presentation and how it contributes to that area of knowledge. In a roundtable all participants and attendees seat around a table, where there is a lecture followed by a discussion and feedback that involves everybody. Workshops are designed to help attendees to improve their skills and give many opportunities for attendees to gain knowledge and skills in an area of interest. Whoever participates in a workshop gets a chance to practice what he or she had just learned or already knew by theory. 3) Can work presented at conferences be published? What are the common publication genres? Peer-reviewed papers presented at conferences can be published in conference proceedings as a common method of reporting scientific results. While in most scientific disciplines research results are normally reported in the form of peer-reviewed papers published in journals. Presenters of oral or poster presentations at conferences are required to submit a full paper that is peer-reviewed by the conference program committee. Acceptance of papers to conferences is in many cases considered prestigious and is also highly important for promotion. The date of publication is known to the authors before the paper is submitted. The conference proceedings are published as books or CDs distributed to the conference attendees, but the papers are made available shortly after the conference to the members of the associations through fully indexed research databases. Independent indexing engines also make these papers available to those who did not attend the conference. By reading the text, “Genres of Scholarly Publication” it is possible to notice the common publication genres, such as: Monographs For several decades, monographs published by North American university presses and their European counterparts have set the gold standard for promotion and tenure, because of the peer review built into the publication process. A monograph is usually expected to offer new analytic and critical perspectives on its historical material and to sustain its arguments by detailed research, be it archival, stylistic, iconographic, technical, or socio-historical. Its structure tends to be sequential and linear, with any transcriptions of documents and technical data gathered in appendices. Surveys The surveys are supported by broad and deep reading and knowledge. They tend to give extended bibliographies rather than a full scholarly apparatus. Surveys often serve as textbooks and as general interest introductions to a field, and they have traditionally been the preserve of senior scholars. Museum Publication Museums offer rich opportunities specific to art history to advance research through exhibitions and publications based on individual collections and works of art. Since the 1970s, museum publication has shifted from curatorial focused museum journals and collection catalogues to summary handbooks and exhibition-driven publications. In the academic credentialing process, publications based on collections and exhibitions tend not to be considered as seriously as single-author monographs or peer-reviewed journal articles. Edited Volumes Supplementary textbooks are not especially vigorous, and production values are usually kept lower than for monographs and museum publications. Peer review tends to be minimal, and usually happens at the stage of the commissioned prospectus rather than for the completed manuscript. The genre may not be so different in scholarly content and rigor and concerns about originality and scholarly weight of chapters in edited volumes arise in promotion and tenure review. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles A peer-reviewed journal article was and is the first step from Ph.D. dissertation to monograph. The journals maintain high standards of multiple, double-blind peer review and academic copy-editing. Given the continuous vigor of these editorial practices, peer-reviewed journal publication could again play a much more central role in academic credentialing. Electronic Publications Electronic publication has become the standard mode of scholarly communication. The humanities have been slow to follow, particularly the disciplines traditionally dependent on sustained, linear argumentation that stands in an ostensive relation to illustrations. Traditional forms do not communicate scholarship in a way optimally suited to the kinds of reading done well on desktop or handheld monitors. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |