Basic Guide to Proposals

Proposals must be 500 words or less. Please email them to zygonrsss [at] gmail.com in one of the following file formats: Portable Document Format (*.pdf), Microsoft Word (*.doc or *.docx), Rich Text Format (*.rtf) or Open Document Text (*.odt).

Submitted proposals should include:

  - Your name and institution,

  - A preliminary title for your paper,

  - A Thesis statement,

  - up to 15 key words or short phrases, in alphabetical order, and

  - A broad summary,

  - A preliminary bibliography

  - and a word count.


Below is an example of a proposal that was accepted for one of our previous Student Symposia.