What to Do After the Conference

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What to Do After the Conference
DSA 101 Conference Presentations from Start to
Finish

• Presented by
• Tamara Bertrand-Jones, Ph.D.
• Juan R. Guardia, Ph.D.

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After the presentation

• Make a list of questions asked during the session
• Follow-Up!!!
• Post the Presentation

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Back at home

• Send Thank Yous
• Evaluate the Evaluations
• In Front of Friends

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Back at home

• Toot Your Own HornToot Toot!!
• Division of Student Affairs Newsletter
• State- FSU Faculty/Staff Bulletin
• Include in the email your
• Name
• Highest Degree
• Department
• Presentation Title
• Conference Title, Date Location

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Have you considered publishing?

• Be recognized for your good work
• Share your ideas and findings with others
• Serve as an example for other colleagues
• Institutional recognition
• Enhance future professional and academic
  opportunities
• Places to publish
• Journals
• Magazines
• Reports

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What do journals look for?

• Should stress the underlying issues or problems
  that stimulated the research
• Treat the methodology concisely
• Most importantly, the article should offer a full
  discussion of results, implications, and
  conclusions
• Use the writing and reference style for your
  specific discipline/field
• Manuscripts should be approximately 6,000 - 7,000
  words in length (between 25-30 pages
  double-spaced, including references, tables and
  figures)
• Submit only manuscripts not under consideration
  by other journals

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What do magazines look for?

• Similar to journals, yet different
• Can be an article, essay or piece
• Length can vary from 750 words to 1500 words
• May receive financial compensation
• May need to include photo
• Read the fine line I hereby agree that said
  article or piece of writing shall become the
  exclusive property of

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Publishing a report

• Can be internal or external
• Find out who would be interested

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• Questions?