Manuscripts submitted to Communication Education
must subscribe to the National Communication Association Code of Professional
Ethics for Authors (See http://www.natcom.org/policies/Internal/code_of_professional_ethics.htm or write
NCA, 1765 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036). These guidelines enjoin authors to use inclusive and
nondefamatory language. In
addition, submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter attesting that the
author has met professional standards for any of the following principles as may
apply. (1) The manuscript is original work and proper publication credit is
accorded to all authors. (2)
Simultaneous editorial consideration of the manuscript at another publication
venue is prohibited. (3)
Any publication history of the manuscript is disclosed, indicating in
particular whether the manuscript or another
version of it has been presented at a conference, or published
electronically, or whether portions of the manuscript have been published
previously. (4)
Duplicate publication of data is avoided; or if parts of the data have
already been reported, then that fact is acknowledged.
(5) All legal, institutional, and professional obligations for obtaining
informed consent from research participants and for limiting their risk are
honored. (6) The scholarship reported is authentic.
Full-length manuscripts of articles reporting empirical
research, critical analyses, historical scholarship, or theoretic expositions
should conform to the Style Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th
edition (2001). Article
manuscripts should generally not exceed 30 double-spaced pages, except in cases
in which “thick description” of qualitative data may require it.
Authors are asked to submit three manuscript copies along with an
electronic file on disk. (Rich Text Format is preferred for the electronic
copy.) To facilitate masked
review, the author’s identity should not be discernible in the text, except on
the title page. The title page
should also state the history of the manuscript (i.e., whether it has been
previously presented at a conference or derives from a thesis or dissertation)
and any author acknowledgements. Authors should mail these materials to Don Rubin,
Editor, Communication Education, 110 Terrell Hall, The University of
Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1725 (e-mail: ComEd@uga.edu).
Communication
Education also solicits
briefer manuscripts of approximately 2,000 words for a section entitled The
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Communication (SOTL/Com).
SOTL/Com builds upon the movement in education studies and policy that
began with the Carnegie Foundation’s 1990 manifesto Scholarship
Reconsidered. SOTL/Com
recognizes that teaching communication is a form of scholarship, just as is the
scholarship of discovery or of critical analysis.
Submissions for SOTL/Com will explore
questions about student learning in relationship to a particular teaching
practice or innovation. Typically
these questions will be posed by teachers about their own teaching.
The work will be driven by questions about how an instructional
communication practice influenced the teaching and learning of a particular
subject in a particular setting. Subject
matter and setting are not limited to communication classes, but may range
across disciplines and across types
of institutions. The motivation for
the inquiry must be well grounded in theory and research. Manuscripts for SOTL/Com will report appropriate quantitative
or qualitative assessments of student learning outcomes. Results will be discussed in light of the focal
question about student learning, and also in a manner that contributes to a
growing understanding of the interplay between communication and education.
In keeping with the rigorous standards for SOTL/Com, all submissions to
this section will be subjected to masked peer review.
Submit manuscripts for SOTL/COM in electronic form (RTF format preferred)
to Associate Editor Ann L. Darling, Department of Communication, 255 South
Central Campus Drive,
University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, UT 84112 (e-mail: Ann.darling@m.cc.utah.edu).
In addition, Communication
Education publishes reviews of books and nonprint media on a broad range of
topics related to communication and education.
Reviews should not exceed 1000 words, although longer essay reviews of
several related works may be considered.
The journal does not generally print reviews of course textbooks.
Submission of both reviews and books to be considered for review are
invited. Review manuscripts (two
print copies and one copy on computer disk in RTF format) and materials should
be mailed to Nancy Rost Goulden, Department of Speech Communication, Theatre,
and Dance, Nichols 101, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 (e-mail: nag@ksu.edu).
Proposals for themed issues will be reviewed by members of
the Editorial Advisory Board.
