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Title: Computers and Composition: An International Journal
Website: http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/
Editors: Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe
How to find it:
Their online archives contain volumes 1-10. Volumes 11 to present volumes are available through a paid membership. Abstracts and Tables of Contents are accessible free of charge. Ohio University’s Alden Library holds physical copies of V. 6 (1988) through V.11 (1994) and holds digitally copies through the Electronic Journal Center from 1995 to the present issue.
Key Words:
Computers, composition, digital composing, multimodal composing, digital literacy, controversial ethical, legal, or social issues, hypertext, professional concerns, intellectual property, and electronic environment.
General Description:
Computers and Composition is a quarterly print journal that explores the use of computers in writing classes. Since its first issue in 1983, the journal has exposed its readers to a range of topics, from the effect of an electronic environment on discourse to the examination of the controversial social, racial, and legal aspects that can influence writing in computer based classrooms. The main features of the journal are letters from the editors, articles, poetry, reviews, and announcements, which reflect its theme. Computers and Composition’s primary audience consists of scholars in rhetoric, composition and technology as well as English-studies professionals and technologists. The University of Illinois is responsible for reviewing the articles, the responsibilities of copy-editing and production are located at Ohio State University. The journal provides its readers with an online forum in which they can exchange ideas about issues related to the use of computers in writing classes. Having international authors contribute to it, and some members from countries other than the United States on its editorial board, mark this journal indeed as international.
Submission Policies:
In 1995, founding editorial members of Computers and Composition created Computers and Composition Online, a strictly web journal which differs in media as well as scope. Unlike Computers and Composition Online, which solicits web-texts, Computers and Composition accepts only traditional “print” texts. However, the types of texts are just as diverse. Computers and Composition accepts articles, reviews, and letters to the editor. Articles are traditionally empirical and theoretical work as well as pedagogical (praxis) studies.
The journal adopts an electronic submission and review policy which makes it accessible to authors all over the world. Authors should submit the following: an abstract in a Word document, 5-10 relevant key words, a cover letter, and a title page with a short (50-100 words) biographical statement, and a double spaced manuscript (15-30 pages). All author’s identifying information should be removed from the body of manuscripts since they are submitted for blind review. The process of reviewing the manuscripts may take up to four weeks. Once all required reviews are submitted, manuscripts are forwarded to the editorial office for evaluation and processing. Click on the following URL to view the journal’s style manual: http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/manuals/StyleManual.pdf
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