Conference Proposal Submission Form

This year’s FCA Convention welcomes paper and panel submissions for two tracks:

1. Communication Theory and Empirical Research: Submissions to this track produce new communication scholarship by proposing research questions or hypotheses, outlining communication theoretical frameworks, conducting research with summative results. All research methodologies and theoretical perspectives are welcome.
2. Communication Application: The Communication Application track welcomes submissions without empirical research and includes reviews and reports, teaching workshops, trend reporting in the communication discipline, dissertation defense prelim/practice, talkbacks and more.

The convention also features a competitive Student Poster Session open to all undergraduate and graduate students.

FCA Convention: Submission Requirements

Full paper submissions (both tracks) must include two attachments:

1. Cover Sheet: Paper title, name, title, affiliation, email, and phone number for all authors. Please indicate whether you are submitting to the Communication Theory and Empirical Research or the Communication Application track. Please indicate student work by including the word “STUDENT” on the cover sheet.
2. Full Paper Submission (Blind Copy): Papers must remove all authorship and affiliation and information, should include an abstract, and should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages, excluding references and appendices. Submission should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

Panels, workshops, teaching workshops, reports, and other presentations (both tracks) should include two attachments:

1. Cover Sheet: Title, name, title, affiliation, email, and phone number for all authors. Please indicate whether you are submitting to the Communication Theory and Empirical Research or the Communication Application track. Please indicate student work by including the word “STUDENT” on the cover sheet.
2. Proposal Submission (Blind Copy): Proposals must remove all authorship and affiliation information and should include one-page description and rationale. Submission should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

Student Poster Session: Submission Requirements

Students are encouraged to submit poster session proposals, which should include two attachments:

1. Cover Sheet: Title, name, title, affiliation, email, and phone number for all authors. Indicate “Undergraduate” or “Graduate” student.
2. Poster Proposal (Blind Copy): Poster proposals must remove all authorship and affiliation information and should include one-page description of the proposed poster.

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