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Quote: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم English Department’s First Conference on Scholarly Writing Conventions across Disciplines CALL for Contributions The English Department invites scholars to contribute research articles/presentations to its First Conference on Scholarly Writing Conventions across Disciplines to be held in April 2019 as detailed below. Introduction Mastery of academic writing skills is the sine qua non of successful post-graduate training particularly in educational institutions that allow enrolment through thesis track systems as do most PhD programmes in Sudan. The urgency for acculturating students into academic writing conventions stems from many factors. First, writing is a complex process “in which many cognitive demands impinge on the writer at the same time”, including objectives of the written product, the audience, the structure of the arguments, and the genre of the compositions (Pea and Kurland, 1987, p. 288). Also, academic writing combines a variety of disciplinary and generic conventions that writers should master to be able to persuade their discourse community of their argument. Second, academic writing is believed to comprise huge hidden agenda that supervi¬sors, assessors for conference papers and journal reviewers use to estimate the quality of submissions (Street, 2009). Third, because writing is an essential component of disciplinary activities, professors do not normally see the need to teach it as a separate subject. It is natural, therefore, that only few graduates succeed in professions that require composing skills (Russell, 1991). In an attempt to address these writing challenges, scholars of different academic backgrounds will meet in the conference to share knowledge and expertise in disciplinary writing conventions to achieve five objectives: to give insight into the major characteristics of disciplinary writing; to highlight the significance of systematic training in disciplinary writing skills; to socialize novice scholars and graduate students into the academic discourse of their disciplines; to popularize academic writing among professors and graduate students in the Sudanese academia; and to contribute to the enhancement of Khartoum University visibility on global databases. Conference Themes Please submit a 500-word proposal, addressing one of the following themes: 1. Disciplinary writing conventions 2. Disciplinary writing challenges 3. Best training practices in disciplinary writing conventions 4. Argument construction in disciplinary writing 5. Knowledge construction in disciplinary writing 6. Knowledge transfer in disciplinary writing 7. Sensitivity to the audience in disciplinary writing 8. Stance/voice in disciplinary writing 9. Revision of research articles Guidelines 1. Proposals should be submitted on or before deadline. 2. Proposals should be emailed to [email protected] 3. Both empirical and conceptual studies are welcome. 4. Selection for publication in ADAB Journal, edited book or conference proceedings will be determined by the review result regarding work quality. 5. Text organization, citations and references should adhere to APA format, 6th edition. 6. All submissions should be made in English 7. Final research drafts should be submitted within two months from the conference date to be considered for publication. Timeline End of Call for Contributions 30/11/2018 Notification of Acceptance 30/12/2018 Conference date 28-29/42019