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Submissions: Calls for Webtexts
Kairos accepts submissions continuously for the Topoi section, with the exception of special issues, such as those listed here:
- Classical Rhetoric and Digital Communication: A Canon Blast into the Net (Issue 11.3, Submission deadline October 15, 2006)
- C&W 2007 (Issue 12.2; deadline July 1, 2007): This yearly call is distributed each fall; submissions are scholarly remediated webtexts based on Computers and Writing (online and onsite) conference presentations. The Topoi editors will gladly accept early submissions and/or queries for this issue.
How do I submit something to Kairos?
Kairos welcomes contributions from scholars pursuing a wide variety of digital issues, from theory to praxis. Kairos features four sections: Topoi, Praxis, Reviews, and Interviews, and also has an accompanying News section, which is continually updated. These sections have different approaches and different editorial policies, as listed below. We ask that if you are considering submitting your work to Kairos, you first visit the various sections of the current (and previous) issue(s) to determine which section best matches your work. Then simply direct your email inquiry to any of the editors listed below.
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Topoi: Extended scholarly analyses of large-scale issues relating to rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Submissions are accepted continuously, and authors are encouraged to contact the editorial staff early in their project's development. Prospective contributors to Topoi begin the editorial review process by sending a cover email with the webtext's abstract and a current URL of the submission. Authors who need an alternate delivery method should contact the editors in advance. Please email Editors Cheryl Ball and Beth Hewett at kairosed@technorhetoric.net for more information.
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Praxis: Longer classroom spotlights and more brief tool-use narratives. Each issue has a tool (software, hardware, etc.) theme. However, submissions are accepted continuously, and special opportunities for participation are sometimes available. Please contact Praxis Editors Colleen Reilly and Joyce Walker at kpraxis@technorhetoric.net for more information.
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Reviews: Individual or collaborative reviews of books, media, and other texts of interest to scholars of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Reviews are solicited, and queries are also welcome. Please contact Reviews Editors Gail Corso, Laura McGrath, and Joddy Murray at kreviews@technorhetoric.net to learn more.
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Interviews: Extended interviews with scholars doing interesting work relating to rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Please contact Interviews Editors Brad Lucas and Margaret M. Strain at kinterviews@technorhetoric.net to suggest individuals to be interviewed or to propose an interview of your own.
- News: Calls for papers, announcements about new initiatives and products, reflections on electronic list and other scholarly discussions, and more. Visit Kairosnews, or contact News Editor Charlie Lowe to learn more.
What form and format can submissions be?
Kairos publishes "webtexts," which means projects developed with specific attention to the World Wide Web as a publishing medium. We do not suggest an ideal standard; rather we invite each author or collaborative writing team to think carefully about what unique opportunities the Web offers. Some projects may best be presented in hypertextual form or in multimedia. In the course of our editorial review process, you should expect editorial staff and editorial board members to analyze your choices carefully, so please be sure to think them through.
At the same time we do not offer a standard form and format, we do want to provide examples. Visiting the following webtexts (most were winners or finalists for the Kairos Best Webtext Award) will give you a good idea about the range of forms and formats that Kairos has published in recent years:
Technical Considerations
In terms of technical form and format, we do expect submissions to be composed for the Web. That said, we cannot accept submissions in Word, WordPerfect, or other wordprocessing formats. We request HTML files (or other appropriate files embedded within HTML). When developing webtexts, we encourage authors to use software that is specifically designed for the purpose of creating websites, such as Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Netscape Composer, and Microsoft FrontPage, or other code-editing programs like TextEdit or Notepad. Authors should not simply use the "Save as HTML" or "Save as Website" option in word processing or presentation software; Microsoft Office 2000 (and above) products are particularly bad choices for developing websites, and we will not accept submissions created in this manner. Images included in submissions should be either .jpg or .gif, and care should be taken to properly size the image (using image editing software rather than simply specifying the size in the HTML image or object tag) and to make sure that the images will load quickly, even for relatively slow connections. Images included in webtexts should be original work, used with permission, or fall under fair use guidelines.
In addition, Topoi submissions should
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include a single works cited page (including on multiple-authored texts) formatted in modified APA style -- include full first names -- (unless the design of a text requires deviance from that citation system)
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include a 50-100 word abstract, 10 tags or keywords, and a 150-word bio for each author
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consider accessibility in the designs (including, at the least, ALT tags for all images)
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include external/linked CSS files (no internal/inline CSS please)
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consider, if using tables in your design, not setting widths at 100 percent, unless the design warrants it (although our preference is for CSS-based designs rather than tables-based)
How does the editorial process work?
The journal's editorial process is one of the most unique aspects of publishing with Kairos. We believe it offers authors an exciting and unprecedented chance to work with editors and editorial board members who are among the leading thinkers about rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. For the Topoi section, the review process includes three tiers: review by the editors, collaborative review by the editorial board, and one-on-one mentoring by the editors for third-stage texts in need of revision.
For all other journal sections, the editorial process includes review by editorial staff to determine the quality and appropriateness of the submission for publication in Kairos and then a thorough review by editorial board members assigned to the section. Please contact section editors to learn more.
What rights do I grant Kairos if my work is published here? Can I publish the same work elsewhere?
Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to Kairos the right to publish and distribute their text electronically, including publication on the Web and on CD-ROM, and to archive and make it permanently retrievable electronically. Authors retain their copyright, however, so after their project has appeared in Kairos, they may republish their text in any manner they wish--electronic or print--as long as they clearly acknowledge Kairos as its original site of publication. Contributions that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in Kairos, unless a cross-publishing arrangement has previously been negotiated.
What are your policies about use of copyrighted material?
Authors submitting works to Kairos are responsible for securing and sending to the editors for archival purposes any permissions or licensing pertaining to the use of copyrighted images or multimedia.
What are your policies about linking in a submission?
Links policies include the following:
- All links should contribute to the possible meanings and readings of the texts. Linking for the sake of linking is discouraged (e.g., external links in-text to outside sources is usually discouraged in favor of links in the works cited; internal linking to the works cited is discouraged unless a text specfically requires it, and then back-navigation must also be provided).
- Authors should attempt to make clear where links are going so that readers may make informed navigational decisions. This can often be done by linking from descriptive phrases rather than individual words.
- Links to external nodes should point, to the best of the author's knowledge, to stable sites and resources. Since back issues of Kairos will be available in our archives, we must strive to make all links as current and accurate as possible. Authors might consider contacting the authors of pages they link to in hopes of determining such stability.
- Care should be given in linking to commercial sites in order to avoid promoting any particular companies or their products. If links must be made to commercial sites for the purposes of the webtext, they should be made to informational documents rather than sales pages when possible.
- Since we have no control over external sites to which authors may link, broken links and "404" errors are likely to occur eventually. In order to prepare for such problems, authors should include an "External Links Page" that lists, node-by-node, the destinations and purposes for each off-Kairos link.
- Offsite/external links should open in a new browser window.
What are your policies about human subjects?
Authors submitting work to Kairos are responsible for securing and archiving any human subjects permissions pertaining to their research. Such secured permissions must be relayed to the editors in writing (via email) for archival purposes.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Editors Cheryl Ball and Beth Hewett at kairosed@technorhetoric.net.
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