The Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication (SWECJMC) cordially invites you to submit a paper, abstract, or pedagogy best practice to be considered for presentation at the 2021 Southwest Symposium to be held virtually on October 15-16, 2021. Submissions must be received by 11:59 p.m. Central time on Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Authors will be advised on paper selections by Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.
Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit English-language-only, completed research papers on any topic related to journalism and mass communication. To encourage graduate student scholarship, we will once again award the top graduate student paper. All scholarly methodologies are welcome. Authors whose papers are accepted will be invited to present at the 2021 Symposium. All papers will be refereed, and the top six complete research papers will be honored with awards and are eligible for publication in the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal spring edition without additional review.
This year, SWECJMC is also accepting extended abstracts for the 2021 Symposium. Extended abstracts should be 750-1,500 words in length, and they should summarize completed or in-progress research projects. The top paper abstract will be awarded at the conference.
Additionally, we encourage faculty to submit pedagogy tips for SWECJMC’s Pedagogy Best Practices session. For this session, submit no more than two pages, double spaced detailing your best practice teaching tip. Address how you discovered the approach, how you implemented it, and the outcome of the implementation.
SWECJMC 2021 submission page:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SWECJMC2021
DEADLINE:
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 11:59 p.m. CST
Additional Requirements for Papers:
Submissions are restricted to faculty members and graduate students of academic institutions in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
- Co-authors from schools in other states are acceptable.
- Accepted papers, extended abstracts, and pedagogy papers must be presented at the Symposium by the author or co-author. All presenters and panelists MUST pre-register. Presenters and panelists who fail to PRE-REGISTER will be removed from the program.
- Authors’ names, academic institutions, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses will be entered into our online system. Please do NOT include a title page on your manuscript.
- Complete papers, extended abstracts, and pedagogy best practice papers must be prepared for blind
review. Do NOT include any identifying marks in the document submitted. Manuscripts with identifying marks will be rejected immediately.
- Authors are strongly urged to observe the publication guidelines of the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal (see: Submission Guidelines). Typically, no more than five tables will be published in a single manuscript. The journal requires adherence to APA 6th edition guidelines.
- No completed paper, including tables, graphs, figures and citations, should exceed 30 pages. Papers selected from the fall Symposium for the Conference Edition of the journal must be made to conform to this length requirement during final modifications before publication.
- Extended abstracts should be 750 – 1,500 words maximum, and they should include a reference list. Extended abstracts should summarize the study’s purpose, literature, methodology, results or expected results, and discussion. In addition, extended abstracts should clearly indicate the progress of the study, including how much data collection and analysis remains. References, tables, and figures should not be included in the word count. Authors whose abstracts are selected for presentation must submit their completed, full paper to their assigned discussant by October 1, 2021.
- Completed papers co-authored with both graduate students and faculty will not be considered for the top graduate student paper award, but will be eligible for top six paper consideration. The top paper abstract will not be eligible for publication in the Southwestern Mass Communication Journal spring edition without additional review.
- Papers and extended abstracts submitted for consideration should not be submitted elsewhere until after the conference ends or the authors must withdraw the submission from other considerations if the paper is selected for presentation.
- Submissions selected from institutions not currently members of SWECJMC may be presented; however, nonmember presenters will be required to pay an additional $10 upon registration. (Encourage your institution to become a member if it is not already.)
For more information, contact Alec Tefertiller at alec_tefertiller@baylor.edu, and use SWECJMC in the subject line.