Academic Conference Presentations?

[mrtr33]

What is it you're doing? I would think it depends on the subject... I am puting together a conference this summer and am about to learn the joys of reading abstracts - if you've got some time for this I could let you know what stood out from my lot.

I'm not in academia, but, FWIW:

Read the conference guidelines. Read old proceedings. That tells you how to submit and what has been accepted. Every conference is different, and has a different style, etc. Know your competition.

A paper is always better than a poster. A poster is better than no poster.

Getting advice from one of your profs is a good idea (and could be a potential co-author). Being second author on a paper is usually better than a poster.

Being first author is better, but harder (unless there's a student section). Having co-authors is pretty much the norm for papers in some fields. (See "Read ... ," above .)

Please post a link to the conference!

I suppose more information is in order.

There is actually a lot more to include, but I'll spare the details. Basically, I've got an idea, and I figure it can benefit academia, so I thought I'd present it at a conference. Being a novice in this field, I was planning on presenting it at a smaller, regional conference, although the findings could potentially benefit academia on a global scale. A paper (albeit not peer-reviewed) has been prepared. It's probably 7 pages long, and is unfinished. I'm out of school, and have been told that this idea could potentially be wrapped into a doctoral thesis. I don't know about that, though. Feel free to PM me for more details, but I'd rather keep the topic itself out of the conversation, and just focus on presentations at conferences.

Here's the link to the conference.