CEDA Paper Submissions for National Communication Association Convention

Please don't forget that the deadline for submissions to NCA is approaching.  If you are willing to serve as a reviewer, please contact me @ dave@miami.edu 

Submissions Close: Thu, 3/28 2013 3:00 AM EDT
 
For a definition of submission types, please refer to the step-by-step “How to Submit” Instructions provided in the NCA Convention Resource Library, located athttp://www.natcom.org/conventionresources/
 
1. Individual Papers Requirements: Submissions must include a complete, single-spaced uploaded copy of the paper. Copies must be uploaded into NCA Submission Central and must not include identifying information. Instructions on how to prepare a blind copy are
provided in the Convention Library. Abstracts will be considered, but completed papers are preferred.
 
2. Paper Sessions: Submissions must include the entry of each paper/authors involved. A session chair is required. Please provide a rationale for acceptance outlining the importance of the submission.
 
3. Panel Discussions: Submissions must include identification of each presenter involved. A session chair is required. Please provide a rationale for acceptance outlining the importance of the submission.
 
CEDA encourages scholarship which promotes and develops understanding of argumentation and debate in contexts including but not limited to academic debate, political debate, legal argumentation, and debate in the public sphere.  Submission for presentation and discussion of issues important to competitive debate practice and the teaching of debate and argumentation, as well as argumentation theory, philosophy of argument, advocacy, decision making, argument across cultures, and argument in applied contexts are welcomed, as are interdisciplinary linkages within and beyond the field(s) of communication.  Submissions which address the Convention theme, "Connections" are strongly encouraged, as are non-traditional submissions engaging alternative formats, including debates and other creative programs.
 
All paper submissions will undergo blind review.  The completed individual papers with the best review scores will be nominated for the top CEDA paper awards.
 
Submissions must be made electronically through the NCA Submission Central system, accessed through the National Communication Association's convention websitewww.natcom.org/convention.  The period for submission is January 14 through March 27, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time.  
 
The CEDA Unit Planner is David L. Steinberg, University of Miami, 305-284-5553, dave@miami.edu.  Contact NCA at convention@natcom.org or Professor Steinberg with your questions.  Submitters are encouraged to review the NCA Convention Resource Library, located at http://www.natcom.org/conventionresources/, an excellent source of guidance for submitters.