Objective: Develop a journal or conference proposal to share your research.
Due: Week 7
Read:
- the Disseminating Original Historical Research Module. You will find this under Content > Course Overview > Course Resources > Disseminating Original Historical Research. Read the Overview, Objectives, and Commentary. Several undergraduate journals are listed under Additional Resources.
- Week 7 Learning Resources, which are about publishing articles and presenting conference papers. They will provide you with a wealth of information about this topic.
Once you have completed this course you should know all of the basic skills of a historian. As mentioned in the Draft Paper Feedback Discussion, one thing that historians do is share their research with each other – both to expand the field and to get feedback on how to improve their own work. Editors do this for us, and so do conference attendees.
While we tend to think of books as a way to share research, the vast majority of historical research is presented to other historians (or students) through journal articles and conference papers. Therefore, this assignment is focused on having you write a proposal for a journal article or for a conference presentation. Use your History 495 paper as your material for your journal article or conference paper proposal.
For this assignment do the following:
- Identify a journal or a conference where you could propose your paper as an article or a conference paper. A internet search for the following should yield good results:
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- undergraduate history journal
- undergraduate history conference
- Note: The UMGC History Student Society enthusiastically welcomes presentations of senior thesis research. Email if you are interested in sharing your research in this venue.
- Then find that journal or historical conference’s webpage, and find the place on the page that includes the submission requirements. Then do a basic submission for either an article or conference paper (remember that the article or conference paper will be based on your History 495 research paper). You can do either a journal article submission or a conference paper submission (your choice).
- Then write your proposal along with the journal or conference to which you could submit your proposal. Your proposal should include your name, what journal or conference you could submit your proposal to, if there is a due date for the proposal (which conferences have) include the due date, and then the actual proposal (which are often about 200-400 words long for a conference paper but see your conference for specific requirements).
You do not have to actually submit your proposal (but you could, and if you want to do that I’ll help you even after the course is over) to the journal in question, nor do you have to write the actual article or conference paper. Your final research paper is of sufficient article length; conference papers are usually shorter, about 10 double spaced pages of text. I have included a copy of a cover letter and a project proposal that UMGC’s Dr. Jeff Glasco sent to a conference, the actual paper that he presented at the conference, and a copy of the conference schedule so that you can see what these are like, but remember that you just need to identify a journal or conference, write the proposal (no cover letter needed), and identify any due dates for a conference paper in your assignment.
Requirements: 15 pages
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