ELT@I TIRUPATI CHAPTER: March 2017

Monday, 27 March 2017

Requesting opinion on continuous paper presentations for 30 hour - Reg.

Dear Sir / Madam,

Congratulations, your registration for the conference is completed.

In the first conference, ELT@I Tirupati Chapter has announced and has been treating that all the participants as members of the organizing committee and considers their opinions precious.

Hence, this is to request your opinion on the proposed paper presentations.

We are planning to organize this conference in an innovative and unique way by arranging 30 hour continuous paper presentations in a single venue from 10.30am on the 07-04-2017 to 4.30pm on 08-04- 2017.

Generally, we schedule paper presentations in parallel sessions and it has become a formality, so all the participants are unable to listen to all presentations to learn more.

So if it is in a single venue, all the participants can listen to all presentations and it can ensure maximum desired output.

Each and every one of the participants comes after studying and preparing on a specified topic. If we listen to all presentations, we can understand “The Bhagavad-Gita” in more than a hundred different perspectives. It gives the superior experience of reading the Bhagavad-Gita a hundred times, as all the participants have read, understood and present what they have understood.

So we thought of scheduling the presentations continuously for 30 hour, so the conference will be a unique one (Hence we named it as; The Bhagavad-Gita Mahayagna) and each one of we can feel proud to be a part of it by setting a record.

But to go with this plan, we need your support and acceptance; hence we are putting it open to you all to express your opinion.

From the evening of 7^th to the morning of 8^th we will have three slots of 4hours each (6pm to 10pm - 10pm to 2am - 2am to 6am – 6am to 10am). If at least 50 participants are willing to cooperate with these slots we can go for it.

We will have flexibility of taking rest as those who will participate till 12 night can take rest afterwards, and who will participate from 12 night can take rest till 11.30 night and come to the venue by 12 night. Transport will be provided between the venue and the place of accommodation apart from providing the minimum facilities such as water, snacks and if possible tea.

So, we request each one of you by name to respond to this request with your suggestions, remarks, and opinions to make it a success. We are expecting your opinions by 30^th evening so that we can plan accordingly.

We hope, well experienced academicians like you can understand the spirit behind this attempt, that is to make the discourses through the presentations more fruitful.

Convener

Instructions to present papers - Reg.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greetings from ELT@I Tirupati Chapter.

We welcome you to the conference.

It is advised to present the paper instead reading it. 20 minutes will be given for each paper presentation, 15 minutes for presentation and 5 for discussion.

Papers can be presented either with PPT or orally but sometimes power fluctuations, electronic gadget lapses are common, so they must be ready to present paper in such cases. PPTs are not necessary for presentation.

Those who wish to present paper with PPT have to prepare them well in advance and send us their PPTs by 02/04/2017 without fail, as we need to arrange them in such a way not waste time at the time of presentations.

PPTs will not be accepted at the time of presentation.

Guidance to reach the conference venue and the place of accommodation will be sent/uploaded soon.

Convener

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Example for References / Bibliography

Dear Sir / Madam,

Greetings from ELT@I Tirupati Chapter. Thank you for your paper contributions.

In spite of our instructions/guidelines we received papers without proper formatting. Particularly while giving Bibliographic/Reference details at the end, further some of them sent without any references. Some have sent papers without name and affiliation details.

We suppose it is easy to you to recheck your own single paper, but it is very tough for us to check hundreds of papers. Anyway we have to do it again.

We request every one of you (though you have already sent your paper) to recheck your papers and see that your papers are with the required details (send the required details again).
Those who have sent without references have to add at least some references to add the flavour of research paper, otherwise it will become just an article.
Those who have just mentioned the title of the book and name of the author, have to provide full publication details of the book as given in the examples.
Those sent papers without name and details, have to add name and affiliation such as designation, institution, place, email id and mobile number etc.

According to MLA Handbook 7^th Edition reference should be given in the following format.

v Author’s name last name first comma (,) first name last full stop (.) Title of the book in italics full stop (.) place of publication colon (:) name of the publisher comma (,) year of publication full stop (.) print full stop (.) with hanging indentation as shown in the examples.

References Example:

Johnson, K. Understanding Communication in Second Language Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Print.

Richards, J. K., and T. S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Teaching: A Description and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Print.

v If it is a paper from a journal title of the referred paper in the inverted commas and volume no/ issue no, year and month of publication and page numbers have to be given in the following format.