Applications Open for a Writing Workshop at COMPASS 2025
Joy Ming
As the COMPASS community grows across fields and global contexts, many early career researchers may face challenges around the often implicit expectations of writing for an interdisciplinary computing audience—especially across disciplinary and cultural writing norms. We invite researchers who might be from the Global Majority, are new to academic writing, or new to the COMPASS community to a half-day workshop to help uncover this part of the “hidden curriculum.” The workshop will include two main components:
- a panel discussion by experts on writing norms and
- a small groups working session focused on paper submissions and other writing projects.
This workshop will result in both immediate, tangible progress on writing progress and longer-term benefits for early career researchers navigating the COMPASS and broader ACM publication landscape. (Link to full workshop proposal)
We are looking for both:*
- early career researchers (newcomers to academia, submitting to COMPASS for the first time)
- experienced mentors (late stage PhD students, postdocs, faculty members who have published in COMPASS/ACM venues and have experience with 1:1/small group mentoring)
to participate in-person or online.
Please complete the form (https://forms.gle/2Rr8fymNpxCPxxoX9) by July 7th for priority consideration.
* Some PhD students can fall under both early career researchers and prospective mentors to undergraduate/masters/earlier-stage PhD students, so you are welcome to indicate you are interested in both roles and we will allocate you according to who signs up.
If you have any questions or comments, please email compass-writ...@googlegroups.com
Thank you for your time,