These guidelines refer to the preparation of the Working Paper, once approval for funding has been confirmed.
Length: there is no prescribed limit, though most submissions might be expected to be between 5,000 and 25,000 words.
Final submissions should be sent to CEBE (CEBE@heacademy.ac.uk) as an electronic attachment, Microsoft Word is preferred. Please contact the Centre for guidance concerning other formats. Images (charts, tables, maps, photographs) may be included in the final submission in gif, jpeg or tiff format, as separate files with the point of insertion clearly indicated in the text.
Review and Publication of Final Working Papers
Final proposals will be reviewed by a member of the CEBE team and may also be sent for external review to an expert within the field, editorial comments will be returned to the author. Completed approved submissions will be published on the CEBE website as part of the CEBE Working Paper Series under the assigned ISSN 1744-9847. Each Working Paper will also be accorded an individual ISBN within the Working Paper Series. Working Papers may be considered for inclusion in CEBE’s on-line journal Transactions.
Guidelines for abstract (for Final Proposals)
Guidelines for creating abstracts (resource descriptors) for CEBE resources
- Begin the abstract with one or two sentences that describe the context within which the resource falls for instance:
“The assessment of architectural design project work, which forms the majority of the work produced by students in schools of architecture, is usually assessed through the process of critical review (otherwise known as a 'crit' or jury). - Identify (possibly as bullet points), the key themes that the resource covers. These should be described in as succinct a way as possible, and contain any relevant keywords. They should describe the resource, rather than summarise its content.
For instance an abstract might claim that a resource:
“outlines the principal pedagogic functions of the critical review”,
but there is no need to provide a summary of these functions in the abstract. - If bullet points are used, begin each bullet point with a lower case letter, and finish with a semi-colon “;”. The final bullet point should start with the word “and” and finish with a full stop (.). Bullet points make the text easier to scan for the reader, although it should be recognised that the bullet points may be displayed as a single line. For instance:
“The paper:- outlines the principal pedagogic functions of the critical review;
- describes an observational study of the processes and protocols that occur during the traditional style of review where the student describes work displayed on a wall directly in front of a panel of critics;
- outlines the drivers towards slide show presentations;
- discusses the results of a comparative study, whereby student’s work was presented in both slideshow and pin-up formats to a panel of reviewers;
- and outlines a set of good practice points that can be adopted when conducting critical reviews using slideshow techniques. “
- If appropriate, conclude the abstract with a sentence summarising the resource’s conclusion. For instance:
“The results of the study suggest that whilst the slideshow method allows the reviewers to gain a reasonable understanding of the student’s project work, they find it more difficult to provide useful feedback to the student on their design project work.”
Remember the abstract will serve two purposes:
- When a user does a web search, it is the abstract that will be searched, and so should contain as many keywords as possible to aid that search process.
- The user will use the abstract to determine whether the resource is worth reading so it needs to describe its contents, rather than to replicate its arguments.
Do not use symbols such as &, < > etc… in your text.
Example abstract
From Drawing to PowerPoint: (CEBE Working Paper No. 2)
General Points Regarding Style and Submission of Working Papers
- Text should be in Arial 11 point font
- Use standard MS-Word heading styles eg Heading 1 - 14pt Arial Bold, Heading 2 - 12pt
- Arial Bold Italic, Heading 3 - 12pt Arial
- The first word of each paragraph should not be indented
- Please use a single carriage return between headings and paragraphs
- Paragraphs should be aligned to the left (not justified)
- There should be 2 spaces after a full stop
- Hyphens should not be used to break words at the end of a line
- The material should be written in a user-friendly manner, rather than as a piece of 'academic work'
- Please avoid the use of footnotes
- The language should be understandable for a British audience. Words and phrases of foreign origin should be italicised, unless they are in common use as English idioms
Use '-ise' instead of '-ize', e.g. emphasize, but '-yse' instead of '-yze', e.g. analyse - For headings, please do not use capital letters (except for the initial letter), and use punctuation sparingly
- Tables and Figures should be provided as separate files, and not embedded within text files
- References should be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name, with the year of publication in parentheses. The references should be listed in full at the end of the review in the Harvard referencing guide HSL-DVC 1,see:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/libdocs/hsl-dvc1.pdf
Electronic references should be cites using Harvard Guide HSL-DVC 2, see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/libdocs/hsl-dvc2.pdf
