Southeast Symposium Raises Confidence of Aspiring Historians Like most of the students who presented at the 2016 AJHA Southeast Symposium, this was my first conference experience.
As an international doctoral student, I had my fears but, from the first moment I entered the conference room, I knew the symposium would become a memorable and enjoyable experience.
In late January, in Panama City, Florida, myself and 12 students from six schools and four countries tested our presentation skills and shared the projects we’d worked on for months with an academic audience.
Graduate and undergraduate students from Augusta University, Georgia State, the University of Florida, the University of Alabama, Samford University and Southern Miss –
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“I’ve never felt so safe and accepted in an academic environment.”
McLeod said she would “without a doubt” gladly come back to next year’s conference thanks to the friendly environment she experienced.
Troy Herring, another first-year graduate student from Alabama, said he has a terrible fear of public speaking, but found the encouraging faces of the professors and attentive eyes of other students helpful.
Herring delivered what he said was probably one of his best performances, a paper on the portrayal of punk and rap within Rolling Stone Magazine and the New York Times from 1974-1996.
Herring opened his speech with the beat from Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” as the background music and entertained the audience with other punk and rap beats while he delivered his presentation.
Even though I felt comfortable speaking in public, I admit to having been nervous.
However, when I started my presentation, I saw the supporting head nods from Dr. David R. Davies, my professor and mentor from the University of Southern Mississippi, and Zainul Abedin, my long-time friend and colleague from the mass communication and journalism department.
But Dr. Davies and Zainul were not the only friendly faces I
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That support took the form not only of kind words about my presentation, but useful advice for students who hope to one day reach the heights of Academia.
This year, three media history gurus staged a panel in which they shared valuable tips on how to turn a research paper into a book.
Dr. Leonard Teel, of Georgia State; Dr. Julie Hedgepeth-Williams, of Samford; and Dr. Pete Smith of Mississippi State listed a few steps that could guide students to publish their first book.
Hedgepeth-Williams encouraged students not to be paralyzed if they don’t know what to do. Instead, “listen to your advisor if they suggest you should publish a book.”
Smith shared his personal experience with publishing his first book, which was based on his dissertation, and suggested students should “look at his/her dissertation as a process, which could later turn into a book”.
Although, in my opinion, all the participants presented interesting, insightful and high-quality papers, three students were recognized for having the best papers in their respective
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The forum enraveled with an introduction given by Mayor Tom Weisner as he welcomed the incoming crowd of students. As things settled down, he passed the mic to Dr. Brandon Kooi, associate professor of criminal justice at Aurora University, set the stage with a general overview of national state affairs and APD Chief Kristen Ziman expounded on community and relationships with an analysis of the
Makers and Makerspaces was the subject of my multimodal English 1101 class, which exposed me to an innovative culture and developed competence in all communication modalities. Excluding the importance of this brand-new culture, which motivated me and originated a resonant excitement enough to sign up for the class, towards the end of the course I realized the main goal was to have every student work towards mastery of communication skills. Furthermore, the class constantly contributed to my personal writing and communication skills development throughout the creation of a webpage, a group presentation, and an analysis essay. As an international student, the transition was rough because I had been detached from the english language for three years before coming to Georgia Tech. Nevertheless, the course gave me much needed exposure to a language that I will require for my personal advancement. Although there are still innumerable things for me to improve regarding my English skills, the course taught me to express my ideas efficiently and craft effective arguments using different sources such as images and research.
Few people are fearless speakers. As students, we generally feel the rumble of butterflies in our stomachs, but the most we have to lose is a good grade.
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and recently I obtained the certification necessary to prove my literary knowledge. However, I know that a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia is not enough to earn me my dream job. Even my hook of disparate double majors, Math and English, may seem overly reckless. Nevertheless, I promise that my passion for working with books and my talents for writing critical essays and logical proofs have made me a valuable intern and will lead me to excellence as a Publicity Assistant with Ecco.
...one and three gave a lot of ideas in regards to the presentation I believe I put in a substantial amount of effort due to being motivated to finish my degree earlier than planned. My contribution to the group could be improved in the future by understanding my trait of agreeableness better and by understanding our chosen topic dealing with difficult people to a better degree. Bell (2007) discusses that communication face to face offers a more constructive flow throughout the group rather than interacting through technology. The majority of our communication was through emails or Facebook so in the future I would improve this by implementing more group meetings where we can meet face to face in order for a more constructive flow of information. All these factors would minimise the risk of communication amongst the group, resulting in a better quality presentation.
I was excited to hear the networking opportunities and positive feedback received by the two students who I spoke with. The trip to the Fordham Foundry was somewhat disappointing, but luckily I was able to gather much information from the two students , as well at on the website for the
I express special thanks to my friends, my parents and my seniors who graciously supported me throughout my entire project. You all are like the light that shows me the way. Thank you all for your love and endless support.
The class helped me learn how to overcome fear of public speaking which was brought about by anxiety and fear which was mainly contributed by lack of exposure. During this class I learned many ways of overcoming this menace, the class groups that served as the audience helped in practicing and getting over the anxiety and fear I also got positive critic...
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