"Mock Conference" Research Project -- Any Advice?

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Hi Everyone,

I'm currently an undergraduate student working on a research project that is essentially going to run as a "real" academic conference. I've no experience with any conferences since I'm only in my second year, but I'd like to take this project and this opportunity to submit this eventual paper to my university's annual undergraduate research conference.

My field is Writing and Rhetoric (Rhet/Comp), and I basically have a few solid sources and a certain direction I want to take the paper, but I don't know how I should craft and develop it. This was thrown on us kind of last minute to see how we can handle pressures that are common in academia, and though I have a good start, I know that I'm behind.

I have a meeting with my professor early next week, but I'd like to ask if anyone has any practical advice on how I can simultaneously write and research a conference-worthy paper in a short amount of time? I have 11 days left to do it and submit it to the actual conference, so I hope I'm not entirely irresponsible with this.

Thanks, and if this is posted in the wrong place, I apologize.