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Special Issue: Undergraduate Research
(Re)mediating the Conversation: Undergraduate Scholars in Writing and Rhetoric Special Issue (Summer 2011)
Guest Editors: Shannon Carter, Texas A&M-Commerce and Bump Halbritter, Michigan State University
Are you an undergraduate student producing innovative, multimodal texts worth sharing with a larger audience? Are you writing with video? audio? images? A combination of all these modalities? What have you learned about writing, technology, literacy, rhetoric, and/or new media as a result of this work? Share your work with an international audience!
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Technology invites undergraduates to submit multimodal texts that originated in one our more college courses. Exemplar projects will be published in the special issue tentatively entitled (Re)mediating the Conversation: Undergraduate Scholars in Writing and Rhetoric.
If your digital text (video/audio/images) covers a topic tightly related to rhetoric, pedagogy, technology, writing, literacy, new media, and other topics Kairos typically publishes, we invite you to submit to our Topoi section.
If your digital text covers a topic other than those Kairos typically publishes (see above), we invite those too! Submit these for the Praxis/Inventio feature and include a reflection offering a behind-the-scenes account of your rhetorical choices and experiences in producing this multimodal text.
If you are interested in reviewing student-produced digital work (work circulating outside the academy or within), we invite those for our Reviews section. We are looking for student-produced reviews of student-produced digital work. What sorts of multimodal work are undergraduates composing outside of the academy? Inside the academy? Review it for us and let us publish it in this special issue of Kairos.
Your instructor will be invited to work closely with you throughout the process, likely submitting a companion text that provides the assignment and other details that invited and supported the creation of your digital text. See the full Call for Webtexts for details.
Deadlines and other important dates:
- October 1, 2009: Proposals due (see “proposal guidelines” on the CFW for details)
- November 15, 2009: Authors notified of accepted proposals
- February 1, 2010: Full webtexts due
- June 2010: Authors notified of webtext status
- August 2010: final webtexts/revisions due
- May 15, 2011: Publication date