Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » roundtable http://www.ceball.com/tenure Associate Professor of New Media Studies Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:43:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “The successful researcher” http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/08/16/the-successful-researcher/ http://www.ceball.com/tenure/2010/08/16/the-successful-researcher/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:19:34 +0000 cball http://www.ceball.com/tenure/?p=1161 Roundtable (two sessions). (2010, August 16). The successful researcher. New Faculty Orientation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

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Participating with VP of Research for Illinois State University, I spoke to new faculty members (in a morning and afternoon session) about personal and professional strategies for being a successful researcher at Illinois State.

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Ball, Cheryl E., et al. (2009, April 17). Writing for Publication. College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Session. Illinois State University.

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Two hour overview and Q&A on how to publish, provided to new tenure-track faculty by journal editors in the College of Arts and Sciences at ISU. Seven editors on the panel, each presenting a 5-minute overview about a different aspect of the publishing process.

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2008, October 16). Digital scholarship roundtable. Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.

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In this session, five presenters — all editors of online journals or presses — speak to the state of digital scholarship, including issues regarding submission, tenure & promotion, professional development, and curricular importance. The majority of the session was for Q&A. I spoke about Kairos, the journal I edit.

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, October 6). Preparing for graduate school. MUSE Undergraduate Literary Studies Conference. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL.

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This roundtable provided undergraduate students the opportunity to ask questions about how and why to apply to graduate school, what the expectations are for different kinds of schools, and how to choose which school(s) to attend.

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Ball, Cheryl E. (2007, May 18). How to get published in an online journal: An editors’ roundtable. Computers and Writing, Detroit, MI.

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This roundtable/mentoring session offered audience members a chance to hear from online journal editors what distinguishes each of their publications from the other as well as basic principles for querying and submitting to online journals in rhetoric and composition. Time was left for each journal editor to meet in small groups with interested authors for a Q&A.

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