connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional is a double-blind, peer-reviewed open-access online publication.
Aims. The journal focuses on the practice, research, pedagogy, methodology, and technology of efficient and effective written, oral, visual, electronic and non-verbal professional communication–academic, business, crisis, development, environmental, health, media, nonprofit, political, research, science, and technical communication–in local, national, international, and global work and civic activity settings, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners, students and emerging scholars from diversified backgrounds, interests, and nationalities.
Subject areas. The journal’s subject areas cover the theory, management, design, development, translation and delivery of international professional information, as well as issues relating to the education and training of its practitioners and researchers.
Topics. The journal topics lie at the intersection of international professional communication and
- Communication and information management (authoring, content management, project management, communication management, information management, documentation, information flow);
- Communities of practice, work processes, ethics (communities of practice, networks of practice, discourse communities, specialties, roles, professions; workflow, work processes, collaboration and teaming, production and publication processes; ethics, deontology);
- Education and professional development (pedagogy, instruction, higher education, degrees, educational theories, approaches to education, learning, teaching, programs, knowledge, skills, competencies, educational technology; professional development, career advancement);
- History, theory, research (history; theories and applications [including rhetorical and functional theories and applications in pedagogy, and practice]; research methods and application [quantitative, qualitative, usability studies]);
- Information delivery and quality (types of publishing, content re-purposing; best practices, editing, style-guides, reviews, testing [usability, accessibility], documentation control, quality evaluation, copyright protection);
- Information design and visual communication (design theory, needs assessment and analysis, information architecture, accessibility, content planning, visual and instructional design);
- Information development and artifacts (writing techniques, plain language; genres; knowledge domains and subject matter, LSP, databases, terminology, corpora, lexicography);
- Technologies, and human-computer interface and interaction (human factors/ergonomics; communication technologies, tool knowledge, skills and abilities; interaction paradigms, theories, models, and design; usability; augmented reality, embedded computation);
- Translation, interpretation, internationalization, localization, globalization, controlled languages;
- Types of communication (verbal and non-verbal communication; online communication and virtual communities; local, national, international, cross-national and global communication, intercultural, cross-cultural and trans-cultural communication; academic, business and management, development, environmental, health, media, political, professional, risk, science, strategic, and technical communication).
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Submissions. The journal encourages the submission of original research articles, review articles, and teaching cases. It invites clearly written and informative manuscripts that are solidly grounded in theory and research related to international professional communication, namely rhetorical, functional, social, discourse, agency, activity, actor-network, cultural and intercultural, multimedia and multimodal informed approaches. To submit a manuscript for the journal, click here.
Publishing languages. The main publishing language is English. The journal also publishes manuscripts written in Portuguese, French, and Spanish. Manuscripts in Portuguese, French, and Spanish must contain a 500-word English summary.
Editorial board. The journal ensures an international Editorial Board to carry out blind reviews of the submitted manuscripts, guide the growth and development of the journal, and promote the overarching area of international professional communication.
Issues per annual volume. The journal publishes one issue per annual volume. The journal may publish two annual issues if proposals for a second issue are accepted, and the quality and volume of contributions justifies it.
connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional (ISSN 1647-2373) is edited by Rosário Durão, and published by the University of Lisbon, Center for Comparative Studies, an R&D institution funded and evaluated by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. © 2009-2012. All rights reserved.
