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 I need publication. He hasn't put my name in any of his own publication