Part 3 projecting self-work 1 conference “house style”

1. A) Which of the following steps about conference participation are true or false?

1.	Study the Conference details on-line
2.	Fill in a registration form
3.	Call the Organising Committee to know how they are doing
4.	Study the Conference Programme
5.	Find information about who can participate in the Conference
6.	Pay registration fee
7.	Pack your bags
8.	Submit your abstract for communication

b) Study the questions in A and match them with their description in B.

Seven basic questions you must answer to participate in a conference

1.	Why?	a.	the length of the report is determined by many factors, but generally try to make your speach reasonably short
2.	To whom?	b.	what the audience knows about the subject, their status, age, culture, specific interests – the information you present should tailor their needs
3.	What?	c.	the place where the report will be delivered ( a large conference hall, a small meeting room, with the help of a microphone or without it, etc.)
4.	Where?	d.	the subject matter of the report
5.	When?	e.	the format, or form of the report including the use of demonstration materials and handouts
6.	How long?	f.	the aims of your report (evident and hidden)
7.	How?	g.	the time (the first report, the last one, after of before the break, in the evening, etc.)

3. Choose one of the conference from the list below and write the answers to the questions given in exercise I-b).

1. The 3^rd International Students’ Conference on Science and Technology.

2. The 11th International Symposium on Applied Engineering and Informatics.

3. The Asian Economics and Management Conference.

2. A) Read the passage and explain the meanings of the underlined words.

Your abstract should be no more than one A5 page (14.8 X 21 cm.)

In order to assist with the review/editing of your abstract please carefully observe the following formatting and style conventions:

Layout

• Author information should be Times New Roman Italics 12 point single spaced right alignment (1). It should consist of two lines single spaced (2): your name; your department/faculty and your institution/university.

• Titles should be set one line below the title (3) and in Times New Roman Bold 12 point (4).

• The body of the abstract should be set one line below the title.

• Font (5) should be Times New Roman 12 point.

• Line spacing (6) should be 1.0.

• Text should be set justified (7), block paragraph/s (no indent) (8).

• Margins should be set at 2.0 cm on top, bottom, right and left (9).

Style

• Place all titles of separately published works (10) (print, film, televisual and so on) in italics.

• Use double quotes (11) throughout except for quotes inside quotes (12).

• Avoid abbreviations such as “e.g.,” “i.e.,” “etc.” – that is, spell out the words (13).

• Use the em-dash (14) for dashes. The em-dash looks like this–that is, a solid double hyphen between words with no space before or after.

• Do not include footnotes (15) in your abstract. Instead weave any references (16) to authors/titles into the text of the abstract.

b) Study the example of an abstract for communication. Does the text confirm to the “house style” of the conference given in exercise II-a)? Support your answer.

Kravchenko А.D., Deshevykh А.А.

(Traffic Management Faculty, Siberian Transport University)

“Green” future of the transportation sector

Nowadays, the transportation sector is supposed to become closely related to solutions of environmental problems. Many countries worldwide face the rather conflicting needs of transport policies. Transport infrastructure improves access to job, education, leisure and other markets and obviously plays a key role in the global economy. Other concern is reducing the negative environmental impact by changing current transport policies. The most of transport modes have some economic and environmental disadvantages such as an unalterable route, air and soil pollution, noise emission and others. So, the challenge is to create flexible, environmentally friendly and cost efficient transport alternatives to prevent the negative effects of the transportation system on human health.

This problem can be solved by implementation of high technologies. European designers and engineers are now studying new public transportation concepts to offer more competitive – high-speed and an individual-oriented – vehicles as compared with present ones. Speaking about the Russian Federation, this country is just going to break ground upon implementation of new high technologies for the transportation sector. It should be noticed that new environmentally friendly vehicles are manufactured only in small quantities.

The above-named reasons prove that the best solution of the so-called “green” problem is the mass production of eco-friendly transport units: electric and hybrid vehicles, high-speed commuter trains etc. Mass eco-vehicles use could further reduce both the cost of transportation and negative environmental impact in the transportation sector.

Supervisor: Ivanova L.M., Associate Professor of Foreign Languages Department,

Cand. Sc. (Education)

a) Find synonyms to the word combinations in the box:

keynote speech	to call for papers
proceedings series	annual meeting
to participate in a conference	location
to submit papers	conference fee

b) Cross out the word which does not fit in the following sentences.

1. The conference will be done/ be held/ be organised at the Clarion Hotel, Makassar, Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

2. We are glad to inform you that BMW is the second colleague/ business partner/ sponsor of MT-ITS 2013.

3. The full paper sending/ submission/ publishing has been postponed to 31 July 2013.

4. Welcome to the online registration/ application/ telephoning system for the Asian Logistics and Maritime Conference.

5. Standard registration money/ fee/ currency is US $ 200.

6. The conference offers a variety of networking opportunities for people/ business parties/ participants to establish new business contacts.

7. The conference fees include proceedings/ writings/ reports in electronic format.

8. English will be the official communication/ tongue/ language of the conference.

c) Fill in the conference registration form.