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Faculty ADVANCEment Workshop: Articles and Grants

SESSION 1

Location

On Campus : University Center 312

Date & Time

October 12, 2015, 9:00 am12:00 pm

Description

Attend a scholarly publishing seminar for faculty, led by Dr. Carole Sargent. She guides faculty members in all departments and programs at Georgetown University to book publishing at first-tier university presses and article publishing at peer-reviewed journals. This workshop also includes a bonus module on the written portion of major grants. Sargent has visited Chicago, Northwestern, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and many other presses, and she hosts university press editors on campus. Content for the seminar comes directly from these editors, and also from peer-reviewed journal editors.

Although the seminar is wholly suitable for first-time authors, the well-published have always been in the majority at her office, and they enjoy learning what's new in scholarly publishing and how to adapt to a changing acquisitions environment. You'll focus on how the abstract reflects your intellectual identity, political considerations at journals and book publishers, powerful ways to streamline any book or article, how to break into a higher publishing tier, and what grantors are really looking for.

The core of the seminar will address the needs of STEM fields, but faculty members in all departments are encouraged to attend because of the universality of strategies for the article abstract and book prospectus. The seminar will also be rich in strategic information that is relevant for anyone from pre-tenure to full professor.

DATE: Monday October 12

TIME: 9:00-3:00 (1. 9:00-12:00 for articles and grants; 2. 12:30-3:00 for university press books)

Please register in advance to receive a power reading list, a prospectus model, and some pre-seminar questions