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The Journal of College Writing
(JCW) is a refereed publication of the
Louisiana Association for College Composition, an affiliate of the
Conference for College Composition and Communication. JCW
promotes scholarship, research, creative writing, and the effective
teaching of writing at the college level, with particular emphasis on
Louisiana institutions of higher education.
JCW encourages faculty, graduate students and advanced undergraduates
to submit scholarly and creative work for publication. Topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to the following fields:
- composition and rhetoric
- instructional policy,
writing curricula, and pedagogy
- business and technical writing
- creative work
Submission can take a variety of traditional and innovative forms,
including:
- scholarly articles
- research reports
- reports of instructional practices, assessments, and
outcomes
- program
profiles
- book reviews
- annotated bibliographies
- poetry, short fiction,
and creative nonfiction
JCW provides an open forum for discussion. Publicity accorded
to any particular point of view does not imply endorsement by the
Louisiana Association for College
Composition membership, its Executive
Committee, or the JCW Board of Directors, Editors, or Reviewers, except
where the endorsement is clearly specified.
Manuscripts should be submitted in both triplicate hard copy (one named
and two anonymous) and disc forms, and should be free of internal
references to the author’s identity. Please follow the current edition
of The MLA Handbook
for documentation and manuscript formats. The
Editors of JCW are solely
responsible for the final selections of work
for publication, and reserve the right to edit publications as needed.
Please send your submissions (original and two copies, plus disc) to
Dr. Jeff Wiemelt, Editor, JCW
Department of English, Box 10861
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA 70402
jwiemelt@selu.edu
985-549-5761
Journal of College Writing is listed in the MLA International
Bibliography and is cited among “Some Useful Rhetoric and
Composition
Journals” in S.W. Wilhoit’s Teaching Assistant’s Handbook,
Allyn & Bacon, 2002.
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