2009 Undergraduate
Student Paper Competition
The Wisconsin Sociological
Association invites submission of papers for its annual undergraduate student
paper award. There are three prize categories: First Prize- $100;
Second Prize-$75; Third Prize- $50.
Guidelines for the WSA Undergraduate
Student Paper Award
Eligibility: Any undergraduate student enrolled
in a Wisconsin college or university during the year of the competition, or any
individual who had completed a bachelor's degree the previous year at a
Wisconsin college or university is eligible to submit a paper, provided that it
was completed during his/her undergraduate studies. Although students need not
be members of the WSA to submit papers, undergraduates are encouraged to join.
Authorship: Papers submitted for the
award must be authored or co-authored by students. They may not be co-authored
by student(s) and faculty.
Type of Paper: Papers submitted for the award may
vary in their nature and methodology. They will be judged in terms of their
employment of a distinctly sociological perspective, their demonstration of
critical intelligence, and their contribution to existing knowledge.
Length of
paper: Papers
submitted for the award must not exceed 25 double spaced pages of text (i.e.
exclusive of references, end notes, tables, maps, figures, graphs, and the
abstract).
Paper Format: Papers submitted for the award must
follow the format and style of the American Sociological Review . Papers must be typed double-spaced
with 1 ½ inch margins and must include a cover page (including the paper's title,
name of the author/s, institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone
number, and name and telephone number of the faculty advisor), an abstract, the
text and its accompanying tables, maps, figures, graphs, end notes, and
references. The title of the paper must also be at the top of the first page of
the text.
Submission of
the Paper: Papers must be
submitted (as Word documents) via email to the chair of the Undergraduate
Student Paper Award Committee (see below) by September 1, 2009.
The selection committee reserves the
right to reject all papers, if, in its judgment, none is of prize-winning
quality. It may award second or third prizes without giving a first place
prize, and a first place prize without giving a second or third. Finally, the
selection committee may suggest that an award-winning paper be submitted to Sociological
Imagination for
possible publication.
Paper submissions and other correspondence with the committee should be directed to: Tricia Davis, Undergraduate Student Paper Committee Chair, via e-mail at: tricia.m.davis@uwrf.edu