1. Peer Review Among Grad Students: There have been several ways in which we’ve done peer review through the semester…it might be interesting to study the feedback that we gave, and then interview each of us about the process. To further complicate the project, a comparison between our grad feedback and comparable undergrad feedback could [...]
11/27 Questions
1. I absolutely LOVE the interweaving of narrative and strong sense of location in “The Personal as Method and the Place as Archives.” I’ve done work that tried to be like this (though nowhere near as good!), and I’ve had very mixed responses to it within the academy. What have Rohan’s experiences with this been [...]
Questions 11/20
1. In the McKee/Blair piece, I love Blair’s admission of her own mistaken ideas about older adults and technological literacy. This is a wonderful example of a researcher not only locating herself, but admitting her own faults. How did others respond to this? Have you seen other researchers with this kind of candor in their [...]
Journal Analysis #5: JAC
Editor: Lynn Worsham
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: JAC, according to their website, “provides a forum for scholars interested in theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary study of rhetoric, writing, culture, and politics [...with] four book-length issues a year, featuring articles, interviews, essays, review essays, and reviews. ” While this journal did start off as explicitly writing-based, [...]
Journal Analysis #4: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Editor: Gregory Clark
Publication Schedule: Um, quarterly?
Purpose and Scope: RSQ is the journal for the Rhetoric Society of America. The journal covers a wide array of topics in rhetoric, alternating history, pedagogy, theory, and criticism. Submissions are blind reviewed and required to “exhibit high standards of professional scholarship,” per their website.
Audience: Their website explicitly lists students [...]
Journal Analysis #3: Rhetorica
Editor: Harvey Yunis
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: Rhetorica is published for the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. It includes, according to their website, “book reviews and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion and law.” The journal is multilingual, but [...]
Journal Analysis #2: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Editor: Mary Hawkesworth
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: Signs has a lengthy and interesting statement of their Editorial Vision on their website, part of which I’ll excerpt here: “Signs publishes pathbreaking work in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that challenges the boundaries of knowledge concerning women’s and men’s lives, gender relations, sexualities, raced and gendered practices, institutions, cultural [...]
Journal Analysis #1–Rhetoric Review
Editor: Theresa Enos
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: As stated on their site, “Rhetoric Review is a scholarly interdisciplinary journal publishing in all areas of rhetoric and writing and providing a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues. The journal publishes manuscripts that explore the breadth and depth of the [...]
