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Author Guidelines
The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journal seeks contributions for upcoming issues. We welcome submissions that address any social, cultural, rhetorical, or institutional aspects of community literacy; we particularly welcome co-authored pieces in collaboration with community partners.
Possible articles and approaches include, but are not limited to:
- What are the broad, disciplinary implications and possibilities for emerging community-literacy initiatives at the programmatic and institutional levels?
- How are the rhetorical features of oral, written, and visual curricula negotiated and transformed in academic-community collaborations?
- To what extent will it become important–or not–to distinguish between “community literacy” and “service learning”?
- What roles will writing-program administrators play in supporting community-literacy efforts?
- What is the place of community literacy in “managed” and market-principle driven universities?
When writing for the Community Literacy Journal, you can assume a wide and diverse audience: scholars in English Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Education, Linguistics, Technical Communication; you can assume a readership among community workers, literacy advocates, and among federal agencies.
Format: The MLA Style Manual, 2nd ed. (New York: MLA, 1998) supplemented, where necessary, with the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed. (New York: MLA, 2003).
- Use End Notes, not footnotes
- Use pseudonyms and/or anonymous information to protect the privacy of your research sources
- Minimize the use of parentheses and parenthetical phrases
- Have permission to quote from students’ or community members’ work. We follow the NCTE Guidelines for “Permissions and Consents”. There are two kinds of permissions:
- Permission to reproduce published work. For previously published work–writing, artwork, photography–authors are responsible for fees charged for reprinting copyrighted material and must obtain written permission. CLJ staff will be happy to advise you.
- Permission from contributors to your article. Research involving human subjects, samples of student writing, artwork, photographs, observations of teachers and their classrooms–all require consent to publish before they can be used in your published work.
Shorter and longer pieces are acceptable (8-25 manuscript pages) depending on authors’ approaches: case studies, reflective pieces, scholarly articles, etc.
Editorial Guidelines & Process
Upon receipt of your manuscript, we send anonymous versions of articles out to readers for blind peer review. We may work directly with you on case study or reflective pieces. You can expect a report back in 8-10 weeks.
We highly recommend reviewing Guidelines for Contributors & Informal Tips on Publishing developed by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
When submitting materials, please include institutional and home mailing addresses, an article abstract of 50-100 words, and a brief author bio.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or TXT document file format.
- The submission includes institutional and home mailing addresses, an article abstract of 50-100 words, and a brief author bio.
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