How to write an abstract for the Autisme Europe Congress: tips
Here's the call for papers convention!
Papers will be announced in January 2007, so there's no big hurry.
I'm sure all the pros would have had their papers already.
And just look at the keynote speakers: Happe (wait until I tell her what an influence The autobiographical writings of Asperger syndrome adults: difficulties of interpretation and implications for theory has had on me, and how she felt about updating it to cover current conditions!), Frith, Rutter (he is a legend. I'll be able to talk to him about the Romanian Adoption Study and get my hands on it).
On the other hand I've known about the Second World Congress for four years. I blithely let the deadlines pass.
Tomorrow will be all about Africa. I have all night and all day to research and I will learn heaps. Then I shall put it into a paper.
My idea is to put everything I've learnt about awareness in the seven continents and then make this my paper.
But no. With Oslo I've got this home ground advantage (in a manner or speaking). I have an excellent paper which is of professional standard, or shall be so with a very little tweaking here and there by those who know these things and can be objective about its strengths and weaknesses.
In the interim I can get people excited about it.
Here's the congress excitement so you can hope and pray with me.
Unless I really really stuff up between now and January 2007 I have a high chance of getting accepted.
I just have to concentrate and write the abstract properly. It is not a scientific paper in any sense of the term, so I will have to learn to cite my reading so people can look it up and come to their own conclusions about it.
And it will be published in the Congress Proceedings and people can look at it and read it and remember it and enjoy it. And it will be on the Net. I will reach such a large and interested audience; it won't be difficult to sell books to a wonderful client group after this. And maybe I might get a publishing contract or two on the strength of this, and get books and stories translated into Norwegian and have one of the best reading cultures in the world.
I will enrich myself so much socially and academically. And I won't even mention the lustre I'll be adding to my CV - I don't really care a great deal for that.
But to have the trust and love of the autism community is a sacred trust. I'll never violate it. Ever.
We have seen what happens when somebody does violate it.