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The Arrow and the Loom: Review Process (Historical)

Once a submission has been (provisionally) accepted by the editorial board, three board members would work directly with the author to help revise the work to make it the best that it can be, both in terms of scholarship and design. Typically, one of the board members would serve as a team leader and manage the communication between author(s), editors, and reviewers. Once this team had signed off on the revisions, the webtext would go into the issue-production phase, where it would be copyedited and links-edited and then placed in an appropriate directory and linked from the table-of-contents page of the issue.

My introduction to this review system came with the first feature webtext I published in Kairos (before I joined the editorial staff). The lead reviewer in my case was Dickie Selfe - and the guidance he and the other editorial board members provided was significant. As a neophyte academic writer, I found the process to be an exceptional learning experience -- and I hope that we have been able to provide such experiences to all of our authors.

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New Review Innovations

In addition to updating our reviews process, Cheryl and Beth are initiating a mentoring project and a new section, Inventio, that will showcase the development of a webtext from the beginning (including providing access to the editorial board reviews and feedback).