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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi, all--<BR>
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Thanks for your hard work in reviewing and reviewing again the various submission to BWe. We had more submissions than I’ve seen in my handful of years with BWe, and they covered an exciting range. <BR>
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JP, Susan, and I will provide a Table of Contents within the week. Stay tuned. <BR>
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The excellent news: BWe 2009 is on track for publication before CCCC. <BR>
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Status as of 2/8/10: Six rich and interesting articles and book reviews have gone through two full rounds of review/revision/review and have been accepted for publication. Two additional articles are currently being revised in response to reader feedback and will likely appear in the next issue of BWe as well. <BR>
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Here’s a very rough outline:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Editor’s introduction (Susan and I are working on that)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Articles (nice range of topics, approaches, genres, and modalities)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Social Justice Policy (two articles responding to Susan’s 2009 article proposing CBW adopt a Social Justice Policy)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Book Reviews (two, I think)
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Awards (article from CBW Award winner Dawn Terrick; we’d love to make this a regular part of each BWe issue [see below])
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Linkages (Peter Adams)<BR>
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<B><I>Request</I></B><I>: </I>We’d like to include introductions to each of our ongoing features, especially since each of these features are brand new to BWe. As you may recall--at our last meeting, we reorganized BWe to include Associate Editors of several new sections. For the most part, the articles accepted shake out along the lines drawn last March. <BR>
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<a href="http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/cbw/cbw/BWE_-Co_Editors_and_Associate_Directors.html">http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/cbw/cbw/BWE_-Co_Editors_and_Associate_Directors.html</a><BR>
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To that end: Can the associate editors provide introductions for each of the sections proposed? By 2/24/10? It needn’t be more than 250 words. Shorter or longer works too. Up to you. <BR>
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Book Reviews: Sonya and Kathleen <BR>
Linkages: Peter Adams <BR>
Awards: Gregg and his team [?]<BR>
[We’d like to propose a new section in which award winners describe their programs in award-winning terms. Perhaps this will help yield more winning years? Certainly help honor previous award-winners. Gregg: I’ll be contacting you about this in the next day, especially in terms of a current article]<BR>
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Goals for each introduction? Up to you, of course. Maybe to get potential authors interested in submitting to future issues or current readers excited about reading the items published in this particular section of the current issue or perhaps something on what makes this feature important. Whatever you think!<BR>
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Signing off for now. <BR>
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Yours, <BR>
Shannon (and Susan)<BR>
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Shannon Carter, PhD<BR>
Associate Professor of English<BR>
Director, Writing Programs<BR>
Department of Literature and Languages<BR>
Texas A&M University-Commerce<BR>
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011<BR>
<a href="Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a><BR>
<a href="http://www.shannoncarter.info">http://www.shannoncarter.info</a><BR>
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