A complete panel consists of one chair, four to five papers, and one or two discussants. Each paper proposal, offer to serve as the chair, and offer to serve as a discussant(s) must be submitted individually. Complete panel proposals may be submitted to one section only, so all panel proposals and offers to serve must be submitted to the same section. No more than one-half of the participants on a panel should be graduate students, and graduate students may not chair panels. If a graduate student is a discussant, make sure the person is qualified to fill that role.

Note: If a submission is not submitted to the same section as the rest of the submissions, the section head will not be able to view the misplaced submission(s) and, thus, that paper or participant will not be included on the intended panel. Additionally, it is at the discretion of a section head to accept, decline, or redistribute any part of a complete panel submission. All submissions are accepted based on individual merit. Each panel participant will be individually notified of acceptance decisions.

Once all proposals have been submitted to the submission system, send an email to the appropriate section head and copy the email to conf@mpsanet.org. The subject line should read “Complete Panel Submission” and the body of the message should include the following information:

• Session title (250 characters or less, including punctuation and blank spaces)
• For each paper proposal: Name, affiliation, and email address of the first author, proposal title, submission ID (the unique number generated by the submission system), and role (paper)
• For the chair and discussant(s): Name, affiliation, email address, submission ID generated by the submission system, and role (chair or discussant)

DO NOT SEND AN EMAIL TO THE SECTION HEAD UNTIL YOU HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION LISTED ABOVE.

EXAMPLE OF A PROPOSAL FOR A COMPLETE PANEL EMAIL

From: Jodi Crane
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2009 3:06 PM
To: email@uiowa.edu
CC: conf@mpsanet.org
Subject: COMPLETE PANEL SUBMISSION

SESSION TITLE: PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC

Chair: Sara Margaret Gubala, Michigan State University, email@msu.edu
Submittal ID #45999

Paper: What Citizens Learn from Presidential State of the Union Addresses
Jason Barabas, Harvard University, email@harvard.edu
Submittal ID #55986

Paper: Presidential Rhetoric and Leadership Following American Tragedies in Space
Gary L. Gregg, University of Louisville, email@louisville.edu
Submittal ID #56999

Paper: The Blood of the Lamb Religious Rhetoric in Presidential State of the Union Messages
Ted Ritter, University of Oklahoma, email@ok.edu
Submittal ID #45567

Paper: How Does the Presidential Rhetoric on the Economy Affect Presidential Approval?
B. Dan Wood, Texas A&M University, email@tam.edu
Submittal ID #12345

Discussant: Sara Margaret Gubala, Michigan State University, email@msu.edu
Submittal ID #45999

Discussant: Brandon J. Rottinghaus, University of Idaho, email@idaho.edu,
Submittal ID #22222