Hello, everyone!
Please find our latest CFP below. We are eager to receive research articles as well as special features submissions. Read below for all of the details and share with undergraduate and graduate students.
Thanks for supporting Xchanges for more than twenty years!
Julie and the Xchanges team
2023-24 CALL FOR GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS
This year, Xchanges journal is excited to announce the introduction of two new categories of submissions. We invite submissions of undergraduate and graduate research articles AND undergraduate and graduate special features submissions. Our hope with these new submissions is to create more on-ramps for student scholarship.
We accept submissions on a rolling basis, but we have a priority deadline of December 1, 2024.
ARTICLE SUBMISSION
Every year, Xchanges publishes two issues: our fall issue highlights upper-level undergraduate research and the spring issue features graduate student (MA and PhD) research. As the 2023-24 academic year kicks off, we invite rolling submissions for original student research—both graduate and undergraduate—on the following topics:
writing studies theory • writing pedagogy • rhetorical analyses writing-in-the disciplines • professional writing • business writing technical communication • digital rhetoric • writing center studies
At Xchanges we recognize and value the many ways of meaning making across the field and therefore invite submissions that employ a variety of methodologies including, but not limited to: empirical research, ideological analyses, feminist methods, narrative methods, (auto)ethnographic research, user experience, rhetorical criticism and more.
Submission Guidelines
Articles submissions are accepted on a rolling-basis, should represent original research, and adhere the following guidelines:
- ● 5,000-7,000 words (including Works Cited)
- ● Include IRB-approval if the project includes human subjects
- ● Anonymized for peer-review
SPECIAL FEATURES SUBMISSIONS
Xchanges is committed to promoting rigorous academic scholarship; we also recognize that serious inquiry can take many forms beyond that of the traditional research paper. Therefore, we are excited to issue a call for undergraduate and graduate submissions to our new “Special Features” section. Submissions to this section of the journal should be shorter than full research articles (1,500-2000 words) but must still reflect the practices and values associated with responsible scholarly activity.
Student writing submitted to the “Special Features” section may cover a range of subject matter related to writing studies and technical writing, but we are especially interested in student writing related to the intersections of undergraduate writing and social justice. Students may want to consider the following question:
● How does writing inform, contribute to, or undermine efforts (either social or institutional) toward diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Submissions to this section of the journal may use empirical research methods, but can also employ more accessible methods such as autoethnographies, testimonios, narrative research, and rhetorical criticism.
Submission Guidelines
Special Feature submissions are accepted on a rolling-basis, should represent original writing, and adhere the following guidelines:
- ● 1,500-2,000 words (including Works Cited)
- ● Anonymized for peer-review
For questions regarding submission to Xchanges please email the editorial team at xchangesjournal
Julianne Newmark, Ph.D. Director of Technical & Professional Communication
Assistant Chair for Core Writing
Editor-in-Chief: www.xchanges.org
www.juliannenewmark.com
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The University of New Mexico
Department of English Language and Literature
Albuquerque, NM
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