GUIDELINES
FOR REVIEWERS
- inReview is a semiannual online publication
that focuses on reviews of textbooks used in college composition classrooms.
inReview is a resource and space for discussion among composition
teachers, students, administrators and textbook publishers.
- Unlike a journal that publishes “issues”
every so often, each inReview focuses on a specific area of
writing instruction (argument texts, business & professional writing,
readers, writing about literature, etc.) and provides multiple reviews
of each text.
We’re
looking for two types of reviews:
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Reviews
by college/university teachers who are using or who have used a text, and
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“First-Look”
reviews, from teachers who’ve perhaps received an examination copy
of a new text, one they haven’t used but might be interested in using.
In
either case, of course, reviewers must have a copy of the text they want to
review; we are sorry, but we cannot supply texts to reviewers.
We wish we
could pay you for your work but we cannot; we can only offer our gratitude—and
that of many other post-secondary writing teachers who will read and learn from
your review.
We need textbook
reviewers for the Fall 2004 issue of inReview.
- The
Fall 2004 issue will focus on CULTURAL STUDIES READERS.
- We
need reviews by July 15, 2004; all reviews are sent to members of our
Editorial Board for their comments and suggestions; reviews will be
returned (with those suggestions) to the authors by August 15, 2004;
authors will have until September 15, 2004 to revise.
- Note
that all of the work is handled electronically—reviewers must send
their reviews as an email attachment. That is, please
send your review through e-mail (or as an attachment to an
e-mail message using MS Word or rtf format) to Greg
Glau at gglau@asu.edu
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Reviews
should run 1,000 - 2,000 words--roughly five to ten
double-spaced pages; we can talk about length, if you need to, of
course
- Note
also that our first “issue” focused on BIG BOOKS—and
we would also like to add to that section . . . so if there’s
a rhetoric/reader/handbook you’d like to
review for us, please let us know that, too.
If
you can meet that schedule and would like to review for us, please contact Greg
Glau at gglau@asu.edu and let him know:
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your
name:
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college/university
affiliation:
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textbook
you’d like to review:
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Course
you’re using this book in (please provide a brief description, rather
than “ENG 12”) OR if you’d like to do a “first-look”
review:
Editorial
Policy: Once we assign a review, you will
be asked to focus on a specific
set of questions, including
discussing the theory that informs any
given text. All
submissions will be reviewed by members
of our editorial board, who may make suggestions
for revision. To
maintain as open a forum
as possible, our editors
will read for clarity
and focus, and also to
ensure there's a useful discussion
of how a text actually functions
in a writing classroom.