My dissertation topic was suggested by my advisor and he has given me a lot of good ideas and suggestions down the way.

Now, we are trying to get a paper out of the dissertation for a fall conference. I am still writng the dissertaion, and he is planning to write a paper for the conference based on the empirical work I have done. I have never asked me about who would be the first author. He has never discussed this w/ me.

Typically, am I supposed to be the first author? Or would the one who writes be the first author?

(I do care about the order of authorship because he doesn't put my name in any of his own publication