Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- I/We are the author(s) of the work and approve the work for publication. If the work contains multiple authors, all authors have agreed that this work be submitted.
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I/we have not used generative AI, including Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) or other AI-assisted technologies, to generate substantive pieces of the submitted work. Any use of AI-related technologies is clearly explained and documented in the manuscript (for example, in the Methods section) and cited as per the most recent standards of APA Style.
Responses to Keynotes
Responses are welcomed as follows. To submit, you should have attended the relevant keynote.
- 1500 word essay exploring one aspect of the talk (please specify), or
- 3000-5000 word paper, on several elements or connecting to another body of work (example, your own scholarship)
Creative Responses
These will be short pieces of 1000 words or less on one, two, or all three of the questions below. But please don’t feel confined by them; if there’s an approach to the discussion we haven’t covered in our questions, feel free to write from it instead. If you'd like to write a longer essay, you can propose that, but we are thinking of this as a series of short explorations. You have the option to upload an image of your poem as well, but this is not required.
- What, if any, implication does your experience with Pop-Up poetry have for your engagement with students?
- Did having a Pop-Up poem of your own, or sharing it, or hearing one of someone else’s have any effect on your feelings about the Symposium as a whole or how you participated in it?
- Outside of the classroom and the conference centre, did your experience of having a poem created around a word you offered and the conversation that followed with your poet, have any effect on how you’ve approached or thought about any other aspect of your life or work?
These submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board.
Articles
Submissions may be research articles, reflective essays, calls for collaboration, reports on SoTL in practice, or other scholarly works written for a broad SoTL audience, developed from conference sessions at the yearly Symposium for SoTL. Manuscripts (2500-6000 words) should explore an aspect of teaching and learning, be grounded in context and the literature, be methodologically/conceptually sound, and contribute to the SoTL conversation.
IS aims for high quality and values methodological richness and variety from a diversity of perspectives and contributors. Article submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed.
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