Journals - Rhetoric and Composition
Computers and Composition Online
Description
This document juxtaposes Computers and Composition Online with its parent journal, Computers and Composition: An International Journal. This document provides a history of both journals before outlining audience, purpose, submission requirements, and format for Computers and Composition Online.
Computers and Composition Online can be accessed here: http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/
History of Computers and Composition
-1983: the first issue of Computers and Composition appeared in a newsletter format. Kathleen Kiefer and Cynthia L. Selfe jointly edited the newsletter.
-1985: C&C became an official publication at Michigan Tech.
-1988: Gail E. Hawisher assumed the role as co-editor working from Illinois State. The journal began to feature authors who focused on innovative technologies (e.g., hypertext and electronic mail) and their attempts to situate them within classroom contexts. From this point on, Hawisher worked with Selfe to grow the journal.
-1990: the journal began annual awards that acknowledged and promoted scholarly excellence.
-1996: Computers and Composition launched an online edition. The online edition is currently under the direction of Kristine Blair at Bowling Green.
-2001-2005: C&C grew from tri-annual to quarterly publication, changed its name to “Computers and Composition: An International Journal,” publication moved to OSU (with Cindy Selfe).
-2006: Officially adopted Elsevier’s E-Submission digital content management system (EES) as its primary means of manuscript submission, review, approval, and copyediting. This attracts new authors from around the world. EES also provides authors with a means of representing multimedia components in conjunction with their print contributions.
Intended Audience
-Composition Instructors
-Pedagogues
-People in Literacy studies
-School Administrators
-Academics interested in using technology in the classroom
Purpose for Computers and Composition
-Facilitate a forum to discuss emerging scholarship with combining technology and composition in the classroom.
-“Computers and Composition welcomes articles, reviews, and letters to the editors that may be of interest to readers, including descriptions of computer-based composition and/or reading instruction, discussions of topics related to multimodal composing; explorations of controversial ethical, legal, or social issues related to the use of computers in composition programs; discussions of professional development and teacher education; explorations of tenure and promotion issues for scholars who work in electronic environments; studies of digital literacy; and discussions of how computers affect the form and content of discourse, the process by which discourse is produced, or the impact discourses have on audiences.”
Purpose for Computers and Composition Online
-Computers and Composition is Divided into three sections: Theory and Practice, Virtual Classroom, and Professional Development.
-Theory and Practice: “[T]eaching practices in keeping with innovations in theory and technology…strives to illuminate these evolving connections between theories, computer technologies, and pedagogical practices.”
-Virtual Classroom: “[P]rovides a forum in which instructors can share ideas, curricula, syllabi, and assignments.”
-Professional Development: “[F]ocuses on interviews and innovations of C&C specialists as well as conference updates and calls for submissions.”
Format
-Computers and Composition Online is not a journal in the traditional sense. Instead of a printed journal composed of primarily alphabetic essays, C&C Online combines text, image, and video, and publications can take the form of a blog essay, an interactive website, a game, or other digital medium. Submissions are encouraged (but not required) to be interactive and innovative, in addition to containing scholarship of the same caliber of other, more traditional, academic journals.
Submission Requirements
-Emailed submissions only
-Work that is intended for the web rather than the printed page
-Peer reviewed by the editors for appropriateness of content and format for the journal and then forwarded to two members of the editorial review board for an external peer review. (Hawisher and Selfe). A submission may be forwarded to a C&W specialist not on the board to ensure that the piece is reviewed by the most current subject experts.
-APA format is preferred for bibliographic citation.
-Does not except purely text-based submissions such as Microsoft Word (.doc) or other word processing documents.
-Feel free to develop pieces with software designed for creating websites such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, or an open-source web-authoring tool of your choice.
-Images need to be either original work, used with permission, or fall under fair use guidelines.
-All submissions and queries need to be emailed to either Kristine Blair () or the appropriate section editor. Dr. Blair is punctual in responding to emails.
Examples of Submissions:
This Was (NOT!!) an Easy Assignment
Jody Shipka (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/not_easy
“Boy? Girl? You Decide”: Multimodal Web Composition and a Mythography of Identity
Brian R. Houle, Alex P. Kimball, and Heidi A. McKee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/houlekimballmckee/index.html
Author
Bryan Lutz
Date of Upload
5/31/11