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GENERAL
CONTRIBUTORS' GUIDELINES
Thank
you for considering the submission of your research project to our journal.
In general terms, this journal is designed to showcase outstanding research
projects produced by undergraduate students working within the College
of Liberal Arts (CLA). The journal is dedicated to publishing the best
articles submitted by our undergraduates, striving to demonstrate the
breadth and variety of excellent research and scholarship done under the
auspices of the College of Liberal Arts.
The most
important purpose of this journal is to increase our community's awareness
of the vast research talent of our undergraduate students majoring in
academic departments within CLA. We on the journal's editorial board encourage
students to submit projects produced within any of the College's departments.
We encourage the submission of works in a wide range of styles and formats
(such as formal academic essays, creative writing, art, musical and theatrical
performances, and the like) so as to reflect the diversity of CLA's undergraduate
students, their talents, and their abilities.
We encourage
students to work closely with CLA faculty in the process of conceiving
their research questions, designing an appropriate methodology to answer
those questions, and disseminating their results to interested parties
both on- and off-campus. Faculty mentors are asked to encourage their
most promising students to submit their work.
Your submission
to the journal is vital to its success and will remain on the Agora
website as a model for future undergraduate students to follow.
Contributors
may submit their work at any time to the co-editors.
GUIDELINES
FOR STUDENT AUTHORS
The
editorial board invites CSU undergraduate students working in the College
of the Liberal Arts to submit their research and scholarship. We are interested
in showcasing the very best undergraduate scholarship in the liberal arts
and giving that scholarship a wider audience on the World Wide Web. Submissions
to the journal might be developed in classes, independent studies, or
in consultation with individual faculty members, but each student must
have at least one sponsoring faculty member. A sponsoring faculty member's
commitment to the project, as evidenced by his or her signature on the
accompanying page, is required. Articles and projects may be single-authored
or collaboratively written. All submissions to the journal are reviewed
anonymously by an editorial board comprised of faculty from departments
housed in the College of the Liberal Arts. Authors must be currently enrolled
as undergraduate students at Colorado State University and must be majors
within the College of Liberal Arts.
For our purposes,
undergraduate research is defined as an undergraduate student project
that exhibits the following three features:
- the project
identifies a clearly articulated problem or issue in the liberal arts
in need of investigation;
- the project
exhibits a systematic, purposeful, and appropriate method of investigation,
analysis, or explanation; and
- the project
contains clear evidence of a systematic mode of gathering information
or materials, synthesizing sources, or developing an argument or self-reflexive
stance that is nuanced, aware of other relevant critical stances and
remarks, and self-aware.
In addition,
we encourage our most creative CLA students to widen this working definition
of research and to submit works of fiction, poetry, dance, photography,
art, and music. An author's submission must consist of the essay, artwork,
or performance to be considered; a short abstract; a signed copy of the
attached form giving us permission to publish your work in this form;
and a signed statement of sponsorship from the applicable faculty sponsor.
PRIMARY AUDIENCE
The World Wide Web allows a wide variety of readers access to your submission.
In writing for the journal , you should consider a diverse readership,
including faculty and students in the CSU community as well as our larger
community within and outside of Colorado. Your audience may well include
prospective university students, undergraduate and graduate students from
CSU and elsewhere, prospective employers, legislators, parents, alumni
and alumnae, and citizens of the United States and other countries interested
in the issues you explore. To address such an audience, you should keep
your writing clear and simple, keeping in mind that some readers may not
share your expertise in your subject.
FORMAT,
LENGTH, DOCUMENTATION
Students
are encouraged to submit any work that fits the general guidelines described
above. Most articles will run between 2,000 and 7,000 words (or approximately
8-28 pages), with 2,000-3,000 words being the norm. The use of subheadings
and endnotes are encouraged to help readers understand your research.
Graphics included as jpeg files may be submitted as well.
Each submission
should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract that summarizes the article's
main area of research and findings, or describes the provenance of a creative
piece.
All submissions
should be documented according to the MLA Style Manual, current
edition.
All submissions
accepted must be made available to the editors in digital format, either
on a diskette or sent as an attachment over email, formatted in Microsoft
Word.
GUIDELINES
FOR FACULTY SPONSORS
Each
student author must find a sponsoring faculty member who will sign the
required
sponsorship form. The faculty sponsor agrees to take the lead in helping
a student with necessary revisions, incorporating suggestions from the
editorial board. In addition, she or he commits to troubleshooting or
solving problems with the research project as may be required.
SUBMISSION
AND REVIEW OF ARTICLES - Required
Permission Form
Please
send two clean copies of your article to the editors at the address below.
Your name and title of the article should appear on a separate page and
not on the article itself.
(Articles will be read "blind" by members of our editorial board,
so please make sure that your name does not appear on any pages of
the essay.) Please include your name, address, phone number, email
address, and title of submission on a separate sheet of paper.
All submissions
are sent to members of our editorial board for review. You should receive
acknowledgement of receipt of your manuscript within a week of sending
it. You should receive a report on the status of your manuscript within
two weeks from the editors. Please email the editors with any questions
about how the submission and editorial processes work.
Thank you
in advance for submitting your work to this journal.
Cindy Griffin
Associate Professor of Speech Communication
215 Eddy Hall
970.491.6749
cgriffin@lamar.colostate.edu
Sarah Sloane
Associate Professor of English
310 Eddy Hall
970.491.7864
sjsloane@lamar.colostate.edu
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