[EDLING:334] CFP: Inside English

[fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU]

CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS:

inside english: Journal of the English Council of California Two-Year
Colleges

Editor: Darren Chiang-Schultheiss
darrencs at fullcoll.edu

Journal's Homepage: <www.ecctyc.org/insideenglish/>

Deadlines for Future Issues:

	Winter 2005   15 November 2004
	Spring 2005:  15 February 2005
	Fall 2005:    15 July 2005


inside english invites articles, reviews, and other writing of interest to
instructors of  English in two-year colleges, as well as letters in response
to articles or on issues of  concern to English faculty.  Manuscripts are
also welcome for the journal's occasional  columns: "Point of View," "Best
Practices," "Department Chairs,"  "Part-Time Faculty  Concerns," and "One
Good Idea" (describing a single classroom technique or approach).  Articles
should be twelve to fifteen double-spaced typed pages (3,000-3,500 words);
reviews,  five pages (1,500 words); and letters, one page.

inside english has a 30-year tradition of publishing articles that are
practical and  classroom-centered.  Our journal addresses professional
concerns among the 111 two-year  colleges throughout California.

Readers include full- and part-time faculty who teach composition,
literature, creative  writing, business and technical writing, and ESL
courses at two-year, community colleges  throughout but not limited to
California.  Readers also include graduate students and  faculty who teach
freshman and sophomore English courses at four-year colleges.

Some Possible Topics:

The 16-week calendar; state assembly bills that affect our teaching
profession; the  teacher-scholar; classroom research; working conditions;
multiple measures and placement  tests; differential units; tenure review;
hiring issues; learning outcomes; curriculum  development; IMPAC; part-time
teaching issues; teaching basic skills; basic writing; first  year
composition; literature; writing center; business & technical writing;
classroom  management; new teachers; writing a syllabus; communication &
competency; technology in the  classroom; teaching in CAI ("smart")
classrooms; cyber-cheating/plagiarism; guides to avoid  plagiarism;
blogging.


Submission Guidelines:

Articles should be submitted electronically and must be sent as an e-mail
attachment  (preferably as an MS Word file), not as e-mail text, to
darrencs at fullcoll.edu. Regular mail  can be sent to:

	Darren Chiang-Schultheiss, Editor
	inside english
	Associate Professor of English
	Fullerton College,
	321 E. Chapman Ave.,
	Fullerton, CA 92832-2095

	Phone: 714.992.7442
	FAX: 714.985.9071

In general, manuscripts should follow The MLA Style Manual, The NCTE
Guidelines for  Gender-Fair Use of Language
<http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/lang/>, and  the Columbia
On-line Style for citing electronic resources. Articles, poems, and reviews
should be titled and list the author's name, e-mail address and campus
affiliation(s) under  the title. All submissions should have each page
numbered. When appropriate, endnotes,  parenthetical citations, and a
Work(s) Cited page in MLA style should be included. Please  enclose a cover
letter that includes the title of the submission, the author's postal and
e-mail addresses, telephone number, a separate but brief biographical
statement in the third  person, and a self-addressed stamped legal-sized
envelope if the author wishes the  manuscript returned.

The editor reserves the right to edit manuscripts to conform to the language
and style  established in inside english. Manuscripts not conforming to the
format described above will  be returned unread; manuscripts not accompanied
by self-addressed stamped envelopes cannot  be returned or acknowledged.


Thank you for your consideration.

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