Literate Activity welcomes submissions of original research articles, pedagogical articles, and reviews of extant scholarship, but we are also excited to widen the margins of what academic journals consider publishable scholarship. To those ends, we encourage writers to submit artifacts such as:
- Original research articles. As a digital publication, we are less concerned with strict word counts and instead encourage authors to consider the scope of argument and data analysis as much more flexible. With that in mind, we encourage a variety of manuscript lengths from what is considered a “standard” length such as 6,000 to 8,000 words to much longer, such as up to 20,000 words. All research with human subjects must be conducted with approval from the relevant Institutional Review Board.
- Pedagogical articles that engage with employing literate activity approaches, especially reaching moving beyond attention to the design of assignments in K-12, undergraduate, and graduate coursework to address what pedagogical interventions grounded in literate activity can afford students and teachers alike in supporting literate development and becoming. As with original articles, scope and data may drive a flexible manuscript length.
- Reviews. We welcome reviews of extant scholarship of up to 3000 words. We are excited to include retrospective accounts of research and/or scholarship that may have been published some time ago, but that either was formative to the growth or thinking of our writers, that bears some relationship or resonance to current developments transdisciplinarily, or that in some way remains exigent to our writers.
- Scenes. Scenes might include a strip of data (an image, video clip, audio file, etc.) and a ~500-1500-word description that indexes how that scene illuminates dimensions of literate activity in some sense and in potentially less formalized genres. All research with human subjects must be conducted with approval from the relevant Institutional Review Board.
- Emergent scholarship and dialogue as an experimental corner of our journal, ES/D provides scholars with a space (texts/artifacts up to 2500 words) to submit brief but focused treatments of data excerpts with a documented narrative (Prior, 1994; Roozen & Erickson, 2017; Ware, 2022) from some emergent project grounded in theoretical work around the nature of semiotic/literate activity, textuality, etc. Should ES/D submissions move forward into the journal space, they will be matched with another scholar for a dialogue/response (not a review). We envision this journal space as a kind of ‘working space’ that functions as a kind of offshoot of the journal. We see it as a means of inviting and supporting substantial collaboration, and we can imagine longer-form projects emerging from ES/D submissions over time.
As the journal develops, we may discover and introduce new publication genres along the way.
For more information about submitting to this journal, please see the Clearinghouse invitation to contribute scholarly work and its statement on publication ethics. Submissions and peer reviews should be informed by these statements. Our peer review process is also expected to be guided by the statement on anti-racist scholarly reviewing practices, which can be found at https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic.
Like other publications on the Clearinghouse, articles in our journal are released under Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow authors to retain copyright to their work. To learn more about these licenses, please view the Clearinghouse's Creative Commons Licenses page.
To make a submission, please visit the WAC Clearinghouse submissions portal. For questions, please contact the editors.