E-mail:
iatq@queensu.ca

Note New Submission Deadline: Midnight, Friday, February 12, 2010

To submit, please send the following information to iatq@queensu.ca. Please put Conference Submission in the subject line.

• Name, e-mail address, and year of the presentation/poster's main contact person
• Name of your department (e.g., English, History)
• Name of a faculty member supporting your presentation/poster, if applicable
• Format, presentation or poster
• Names and e-mail addresses of all presenters, if applicable.
• Title of the presentation/poster
• Abstract, up to 250 words

About the abstract
This is an interdisciplinary conference, and people not involved with your discipline must be able to understand your abstract. So write the abstract with these people in mind, and have someone who is not in your discipline read it. Abstracts will be read by reviewers, and may be returned for revision if they are unclear, incomplete, more than 250 words, or have grammatical or spelling errors.

Getting help
For help writing your abstract, contact Doug Babington, of the Writing Centre.

You can also take a look at one of the following web resources for some tips and tricks for successful abstract writing:

• University of North Carolina Writing Center.  How to Write an Abstract.
• P. Koopman. How to Write an Abstract. Carnegie Mellon University.
• University of Carolina. Links and Tips on how to Write an Abstract.

Presentations:

For help with your poster or presentation, plan to attend one of the Queen's Learning Commons workshops. Dates and locations will be announced soon.

The Queen's Learning Strategies Development website has a handout on Tackling Presentation Anxiety at Graduate School that may help you prepare for your presentation.

A few other sites focused around creating posters and presentations are:

• Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences, Tips for Oral Presentations and Posters at a Student Conference.
• Mark Hill. Oral Presentation Advice, including David Patterson's How to Give a Bad Talk.
• Scott Plunket. Tips on Poster Presentations at Professional Conferences.
• Jackie Karlin. Creating an Effective Conference Presentation.
• For more resources, please visit the Creating Better Presentations guide on the Library Website at Eastern Conneticut’s Public Liberal Arts University.  This resource covers both Oral and Poster presentations.