Writing for JAAL

Emily N. Skinner & Margaret Carmody HagoodCo-Editors, College of Charleston

JAAL Co-Editors

Emily Neil Skinner is an associate

professor of literacy education at

the College of Charleston and

teaches courses addressing preK-

12th grade literacy learning

contexts for pre-service and in-

service teachers. Emily's research

interests include exploring

adolescents' digital literacies

practices, teaching writing/design

with children and adolescents,

and engaging practicing teachers

in new literacies professional

development.

Margaret Carmody Hagood is an

associate professor of literacy

education at the College of

Charleston. She teaches

undergraduate and graduate

courses in the connections

between foundational and

new/digital literacies and in

research methodologies. Margaret

conducts research on adolescent

and adults’ uses of literacies

connected to their identities.

Session Overview

Vision for 2012-2016

Submitting feature articles

Review process

Vision

● Connections and conversations of various stakeholders: teachers, adolescent and adult learners, researchers, teacher educators, media specialists/librarians, policy makers

● Inclusion of readers of the journal in both consumption and production of texts

● Balance of theory, research, and practice

● Driven by expanded definition of text and of multifaceted view of literacy, including reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and designing

Seeking submissions that attend to:

● Connections among six literacies—reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and designing—grounded in multidisciplinary topics and inquiries both responsive to school standards and relevant to students’ lives

● 21st century learning that merge Web 1.0 and 2.0 features (and moving into Web 3.0) and connect local and global literacies

● Producing literacies- writing/designing ● Teacher advocacy through negotiations of state standards, testing

culture, and technology issues ● Teaching diverse groups of students ● Disciplinary literacies and highlights of movement to CCSS● Qualitative and/or quantitative research

Articles

● Criteria: High-quality research into practice manuscripts that make a significant contribution to advancing and integrating theory and practice in adolescent and adult literacy

● Format: Research study

Teacher action research

● Tone: Approachable and engaging● Length: 5,000 to 6,000 words including citations and reference list ● Other: Inclusion of charts, tables, figures, photographs to engage

readers

Before submitting your manuscript, familiarize yourself with articles published in JAAL to gain insight on the voice, tone, and format appropriate for the journal’s audience. Choose a model article and set up your work similarly.

Articles- continued

Take Action

● A short sidebar that accompanies JAAL feature articles and lists steps teachers might follow to apply authors’ ideas in their classrooms

● A numbered list of steps or a few paragraphs (no longer than 270 words) that succinctly explain how teachers can begin using your idea

● Clear and concise, including content area examples

More to Explore● Sidebar listing 3-4 texts (can be print and/or non-print texts [videos, websites,

applications, etc.]) that readers can go to to learn more about the subject matter of your piece

These features must be included in initial submission before they will be sent out for review.

Review Process of Manuscript for Articles

● Acceptance determined by the reviewers’ recommendations and editorial evaluation

● Initial decision (accept with minor revisions, revise and resubmit, reject) provided within 8-10 weeks of submission

● Revise and resubmits decisions have a very good chance of proceeding towards publication if recommendations are addressed

● Early View Publication: Feature articles will be published online as soon as they are process and can be cited at that time

● Publication date of accepted manuscripts is currently slated for upcoming volume year (2014-2015)

Review Process of Manuscript for Article

● Preliminary evaluation by Ben Hogan, Scholar One administrator, to determine appropriateness, double-blind peer review, and adjudication.

● Reviewed by three reviewers from Editorial Board members (may include a guest reviewer)

● No book reviews, literary analyses, class projects, term papers, dissertations, endorsements of commercial products/services, previously published works, or works under consideration elsewhere.

● Manuscripts evaluated on their originality, significance, scholarship, clearly articulated relationship between theory and practice, audience appeal, organization, and writing style appropriateness for JAAL audience

Stats: 2012-2013

● Impact Factor (2012): .627 (IRA 2012 Impact Factor Trends, Wiley Blackwell)

● Article downloads: 74,207 (September YTD- 75% increase from September 2012)

● Available in thousands of libraries through WB collections deals and for free or at very low cost to libraries in the developing world via philanthropic programs such as International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)

● Acceptance rate: July-Sept. 2013 17% (Wiley Blackwell, quarterly report)

Muldimodal Elements and Participatory Opportunities

● Cover Art

● Facebook

● Meeting of the Minds

● Literacy Lenses

● Podcasts

Cover Art

● Adolescent and adult representations of adolescent and adult literacies in action

● Answers the question, How are literacies enacted in the lives of adolescents and adults and what do they look like?

● Welcome photographs, paintings, illustrations, word clouds, and digital art with 300 dpi resolution

● Adhere to appropriate releases

● Include no content copyrighted by a third party

● Submit in digital format to manuelmk@cofc.edu

Cover Art Examples

Cover Artist: Alisa Myers Justin Yu, 15 years old, is majoring in strings at School of the Arts (Charleston, SC). He’s played cello for four years and is fourth chair in the senior All-State Orchestra. When not experiencing literacies through music, he enjoys playing rugby and soccer with friends and watching movies. Alisa Myers is a Charleston native and freelance photographer. She is a recent graduate of the College of Charleston’s music program and enjoys participating in local musical events.

Cover Artist: James F. Woglom This digitally colored ink drawing, entitled “The Good Stuff Found Therein,” is meant to illustrate the wealth of imaginative stories afforded to readers through a lifelong praxis of reading. James F. Woglom is an artists and educato. He is currently working toward th completion of a PhD in art education at the University of Georgia, where he works as a graduate teaching assistant. His work has appeared on the cover of New South, in Unsplendid, and in a forthcoming book to be published b Stylus Press.

Cover Artist: Anne K. Hayes “Behind the Gaze” by Anne K. Hayes. Anne states, “I am primarily a painter, but I am also a lifelong learner and teacher. This drawing reflects all of those qualities because it is all about what is happening in the mind when a child stares at the computer screen. Something is definitely happening Behind the Gaze that is absolutely fascinating.”

Facebook and Meeting of the Minds

● Search Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy ● "Like" JAAL on FB & join the conversation● Meeting of the Minds: Highlight discussion

around journal's content

Literacy Lenses

● Essays by middle school and high school teachers, media specialists, librarians, literacy coaches, curriculum specialists, administrators, pre-service teachers, teacher educators, and by adolescent and adult learners.

● Highlight authors’ perspectives of teaching and/or learning with literacies to inspire reader reflection of the literacy issues

● Non-academic writing (written in first person without citations or references included).

● Approximately 500 words and include a photograph if possible (e.g., 300 dpi resolution photo of the author or the classroom or learning context profiled--but note photo releases are required for all people featured in a photo, and parent releases are required for minors to appear).

● One-year, online-only subscription to any IRA journal for either yourself or a colleague if selected.

Literacy Lenses Examples

We Can All Be Someone’s Hero

By Noah Cox, Neil Mosca, and Patti Donnelly

Reflections of book writing and art gallery presentation by two sixth grade boys and their ELA teacher.

Storify- A Gimmick or an Engaging Research Tool?

By Kara Clayton

Description of use of Web 2.0 tool, Storify, by a media specialist for high school students to research and write a paper using multimodal resources and varying perspectives.

Read, Flip, and Write!By Sandra F. MatsonA high school English teacher reflects on how to teach students to paraphrase in order to correctly and responsibly cite another person’s work in their own writing.

Naming Names: Creating Works That Are at Once Ordinary and UnforgettableBy Jonathan SanchezA poet describes how to use “The River Merchant’s Wife” by Rihaku to teach students to write poems that are personal and unique.

Podcasts

● Free podcast feature article author interviews are available for all feature articles from Volume 56, Issue 1- current issue.

● Can be downloaded from the Table of Contents from Wiley Blackwell Online Library website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jaal.2013.57.issue-3/issuetoc

Get involved!

Write a feature article

Download feature article podcasts

Write a piece for Literacy Lenses or work with students and have them submit first person pieces

Submit cover art

Like the JAAL Facebook page and join in the conversation with other JAAL readers

Offer to be a guest reviewer- send email and cv to Meg Manuel at manuelmk@cofc.edu

Contact information

Emily Skinner skinnere@cofc.edu

Margaret Hagood hagoodm@cofc.edu

Meg Manuel manuelmk@cofc.edu