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Paper Submission Guidelines

Submission Deadline: September 12, 2003

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What Kind of Paper?

Papers may describe a classroom experience, teaching technique, curricular initiative, or educational research project.   Topics of interest include, but certainly are not limited to:


How Should the Paper be Formatted?

Authors must submit two versions of their paper: a publication version (with author/institution information), and an anonymous version with ALL references to the authors removed (including author's names and affiliation plus identifying information within the body of the paper such as websites or related publications). The publication version is available for use by the Program Committee and the anonymous version is used in the reviewing process. Both versions are limited to a maximum of 5 pages and must adhere to the SIGCSE 2004 Format Instructions. Templates are available in Word, WordPerfect, and LaTeX.

Electronic submission of papers is required.


How Do I Submit My Paper?

Electronic Submissions (requires Netscape or Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher):

Step 1: Write your paper using the format specified above. Make sure that you have two versions of the paper, an anonymous version and a publication version.

Step 2: Convert your paper into Adobe PDF format. Refer to our Creating Adobe PDF Documents page for assistance.

Step 3: Submit both versions using the online Paper Submission Form. Please do not wait until the last minute to submit your documents because that is when everyone else will be connecting to our server!

Step 4: Make note of the paper ID number and password assigned to your submission. You will receive an e-mail message confirmation.

Step 5: After receiving confirmation, go to the Author Verification Form to review your submission for accuracy. Send e-mail to Wanda Dann (wpdann@ithaca.edu) or Tom Naps (naps@uwosh.edu) if there are any problems. Warning! Several authors have reported problems viewing their PDF files using Internet Explorer. If you experience similar problems, it is best to download the file and use Acrobat Reader directly.

Deadline: All electronic submissions must be received by September 12, 2003.


What Are the Conference Paper Categories?

Note that there are several ways you must categorize your paper submission. Within the paper itself, you must provide Category and Subject Descriptors, General Terms, and Keywords. These requirements are described in more detail in the SIGCSE 2004 Format Instructions. When you submit your paper you also must categorize it for our paper's database. We list the Conference Paper Categories below. Descriptions of each of these categories will be available soon, on the online paper submission site. Please be sure only to choose the one or two categories that best fit your paper. This helps us correctly match papers to reviewers.

The categories are: Algorithms, AP/IB Courses & Curricula, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Classroom Management, Communication Skills, Computational Science, Course Related, Courseware, CS Ed Research, CS1/2, Curriculum Issues, Database, Discrete Mathematics, Distance Education, Distributed/Parallel Computing, Ethical/Societal Issues, Formal Methods/Theory, Gender and Diversity Issues, General Topics, Graphics/Visualization, Human-Computer Interface, Information Systems, Information Technology, Lab Environments, Multimedia, Networks/Data Communications, Non-majors, Non-traditional Students, Object-Oriented Issues, Operating Systems, Other, Pedagogy, Programming Languages/Paradigms, Software Engineering, Supporting Courses/Internships, Undergraduate Research/Capstones, Web-based Techniques


Tom Naps <naps@uwosh.edu>
Wanda Dann<wpdann@ithaca.edu>
Last modified: Thursday, June 26, 2003