Dear colleagues,

Submissions are invited for the 2018 AILACT Essay Prize in informal
logic/critical thinking/argumentation theory. This will be the 14th year in
which the prize ($500 U.S.) has been offered. Submissions are due by
September 1, 2018. For details, see below. The details are also available
at: https://ailact.wordpress.com and in the attached flyer. Thank you.

Dr. Gilbert Plumer
Associate Director for Assessment Projects and Research (retired)
Law School Admission Council (USA)

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● The prize-winning paper, and any “honourable mention” paper, will be
considered for publication in* Informal Logic* upon the conditions listed
below.*

   ● Papers related to the teaching or theory of informal logic or critical
thinking, and papers on argumentation theory, will be considered for the
prize.

   ● There are no restrictions on authorship.  Authors need not be members
of AILACT.

   ● Previously unpublished papers, and papers published or accepted for
publication between January 1, 2015 and September 1, 2018 are eligible.
Maximum length: 6,000 words (exclusive of footnotes and references).

   ● Entries will be assessed on the basis of their argument, scholarship,
style, and importance to the field. There is a limit of one entry per
author.

   ● The jury members for the 2018 AILACT essay prize, approved by the
AILACT Board of Directors, are Marianne Doury, Researcher at the National
Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris; Christopher Tindale,
Professor of Philosophy, University of Windsor; David Sherry, Department of
Philosophy, Northern Arizona University.  The jury's decision is final.

   ● To submit a paper, attach a PDF (preferred) or MS Word or RTF document
to an email with AILACT ESSAY ENTRY on the “subject” line and send it to
Derek Allen ([log in to unmask]) with a covering note giving
your name and a mailing address.  Please send the paper ready for
blind-reviewing (the author not identified on the paper or file containing
the paper or in the description of the document’s properties that is part
of the file, and self-identifying references removed from the text, notes
and references). Each page after the first should be numbered.

   ● The deadline for receipt of submissions is September 1, 2018.  The
winner will be announced by December 15, 2018.  AILACT will publicize the
name of the winner on its web site and at AILACT sessions held at APA
divisional meetings in 2019.

   ●  For further information about the essay prize, contact Gilbert Plumer
([log in to unmask]).  For information about AILACT, visit our web site:
https://ailact.wordpress.com/

*The prize-winning paper, and any “honourable mention” paper, will be
eligible for consideration for publication in *Informal Logic* if it has
not already been published or accepted or committed for publication
elsewhere and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and if
the author consents to its consideration for publication in *Informal Logic*.
The editors of *Informal Logic* will arrange for blind review of the paper
if these conditions are met.  The author will be expected to revise the
paper in light of the reviewers’ suggestions, or to justify not doing so.

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