Those wishing to submit their papers for consideration for publication in the volume to come out from the workshop should rewrite their presentations in essay form and send it in MS Word (doc) or OpenOffice (odt) format to turkishamericans@kulturad.org before15 August 2014.
Please use the MLA style of documentation (see the third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing and the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers) to prepare your essay, paying particular attention to the following.
- The essay should adopt a cultural studies approach and be based on a theoretical framework. Its content should either bring novelty to the field, contribute a new interpretation or question received knowledge. Purely descriptive texts will not be accepted.
- The essay should not be more than 7000 words, notes and works cited included, and should not contain expressions such as “in the time allotted” or “I will speak about.”
- The essay should contain an introduction and a conclusion, whether these are so subtitled or not. The introduction should explain what the essay will do, and the essay itself should develop accordingly. The conclusion should contain a summary of what has been said in the essay, possibly using different words. Note that no matter that has not already been discussed in the body of the essay can be introduced in the conclusion. It is advised that the conclusion end with a thought toward the future.
- Any non-English word found in the text needs to be italicized and its meaning given in paranthesis. All anagrams should be given in full when mentioned for the first time.
- Any list found in the text should be prepared according to a criterion: alphabetical, chronological, etc.
- All data, whether as direct quotation or paraphrasis, should be documented. Authors' both first names and surnames should be written when mentioned for the first time, and only the surname should be written from then on.
- Footnotes should be explanatory only, with sources given in-text paranthetically according to the MLA style—which requires page numbers even for paraphrases.
- Quotation marks should be used for all direct quotations. If no quotation marks are used, an author's words need to be paraphrased; in other words, words different from those of the author have to be used. All direct quotations exceeding three lines should be block quotations. If you translate any word or passage from another language, this should be acknowledged by writing “translation mine.”
- If the essay is to include visual material, make sure you will be able to obtain the necessary permission for publication, and be ready to contribute if it increases the publication costs.
- A list of “Works Cited” should be prepared in alphabetical order according to authors' surnames, with works of an author listed chronologically starting from the earliest.