EGCL17 - Call For Abstracts

North Towers walkway The Department invites abstracts of papers and posters to be presented at the annual EGCL (Essex Graduate Conference in Linguistics). This will take place on Tuesday 29th May 2012. EGCL is a yearly one-day conference exclusively for students in the language and linguistics department at Essex. It is an important part of research training for attendees and presenters alike, giving an opportunity for students to experience an academic conference format, and to meet with other students in the department.

All postgraduate students and 3rd year undergraduates who are undertaking research projects are encouraged to submit an abstract, which is an excellent opportunity to get conference practice in a friendly atmosphere. Undergraduate project reports are likely to be suitable for a poster presentation, as are work-in-progress reports from MA students. PhD students are encouraged to apply for an oral presentation to talk about research that is already completed.

Reports of research projects at any stage of development may be submitted, such as: reports of planned research projects, work-in-progress reports and papers reporting completed research. Proposals from any area of linguistics are welcome.

Type of Presentations

1. Oral presentations
These will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions.

2. Posters
The poster session will last for approximately 40 minutes. Authors will be expected to be available and answer questions about their posters.

3. Workshops
Each workshop will last 90 minutes. Proposals which address possible problems during data collection or teaching software used by linguists from any area of linguistics are welcome. You can find the guidelines regarding how a workshop should be here.

Submission Deadline

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to us at: egcl@essex.ac.uk by Sunday 11th March 2012.

Format of Abstracts

All abstracts should be in accordance with the formatting guidelines laid out in the 'EGCL 2012 Abstract Submission Form'.

The email to which you attach the following documents should contain the subject line: ‘abstract submission’.

Abstract submission form
Anonymous file of your abstract
Named file of your abstract The body of the e-mail should contain your name, degree scheme (3rd-year undergraduate, MA, PhD), and e-mail address

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to us at: egcl@essex.ac.uk by Sunday 11th March 2012.

You can find some advice on how to write an abstract, give a presentation and prepare a poster here. If you have any queries, please contact the organisers.

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