CFP
connexions • international professional communication journal publishes two issues per annual volume. The journal may publish three annual issues if proposals for a third issue are accepted, and the quality and volume of contributions justifies it. This page contains the list of current and past calls for papers.
Current Calls
Past Issues
- Issue 1(2): International Engineering Communication [Special Issue]
- Issue 1(1): International Professional Communication: yesterday < today > tomorrow [Special Issue]
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Current Calls
Issue 2(1)
February 2014
connexions • international professional communication journal invites you to contribute to issue 2(1) by submitting papers that explore the
practice, research, pedagogy, methodology, and technology of
efficient and effective written, oral, visual, electronic and non-verbal professional communication in
academic, business, crisis, development, environmental, health, media, nonprofit, political, research, science, technical and other work and civic activity contexts in
local, national, international, and global work and civic activity settings.
Manuscripts of
- original research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words of body text,
- review articles of 3,000 to 5,000 words of body text,
- focused commentary and industry perspectives articles of 500 to 3,000 words of body text,
- teaching cases of 3,000 to 5,000 words of body text.
Submission procedures:
- Submit
- cover page containing your name, institutional affiliation, and email address);
- complete research article, review article, focused commentary or industry perspective article, or teaching case.
- Prepare the cover page and manuscript on letter or A4 size pages, 1.5 line spacing, and Georgia, 12-point font.
- Save the cover page and manuscript in doc, docx, or rtf format.
- Submit your proposal (cover page and full manuscript) by email to the Editor at editor@connexionsjournal.org.
Schedule
- Proposal deadline: September 30, 2013.
- Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2013.
- Date of publication: February 28, 2014.
If you have any questions about your proposal, feel free to contact the Editor.
Thank you for considering writing a paper for connexions • international professional communication.
Rosário Durão
Editor
connexions • international professional communication journal
Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences
New Mexico Tech
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Past Issues
Issue 1(2)
International Engineering Communication
The value of written and oral communication within both engineering practice and education is well understood by our discipline and has been addressed through multiple classroom and workplace studies. The role of communication within engineering disciplines has been reinforced through numerous publications in the technical communication and engineering fields that have reported on the types, frequency, characteristics, and approaches of communication activities among practicing engineers, as well as shared curricular models and pedagogical strategies intersecting communication and engineering.
But while engineering is an increasingly global profession, much of the work to date has focused on within-culture communication in engineering. Far less information is available on international engineering communication, though work on cross-cultural communication broadly has been underway for several years. While past IEEE Professional Communication Society conferences (IPCC) have included international engineering communication sessions and an upcoming IPCC conference (July 2013) focuses on communicating globally, sustained dialogue around this issue is in its early stages and there is ample room for development in the ways we are thinking about and addressing engineering communication at an international level.
This special issue of the connexions journal aims to catalyze a more focused conversation about the role of engineering communication within global workplaces and among international audiences.
Abstracts to be developed into
- original research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words of body text
- review articles of 3,000 to 5,000 words of body text
- focused commentary and industry perspectives articles of 500 to 3,000 words of body text
- teaching cases of 3,000 to 5,000 words of body text
on international engineering communication topics are invited (deadline for submissions is January 4, 2013).
Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:
- Communication instruction for international engineering students
- Human-centered design for global audiences
- International engineering project management
- Risk communication on an international scale
- Genres and discourse conventions for global audiences
- Technical documentation for multinational users
- Ethics and global considerations
- Technical presentations for multinational audiences
- Multi-modal communication in virtual global engineering teams
- International approaches to integrating communication and engineering learning
Submission procedures:
- Prepare the cover page and manuscript with 1.5 line spacing and Georgia, 12-point font.
- Save the cover page and manuscript in doc, docx, rtf, or pdf format.
- Submit via email to Julie Ford at jford@nmt.edu
- cover page containing your name, institutional affiliation, and email address;
- 500 word abstract
- whether you are submitting a research article, a review article, industry perspective article, or teaching case
Schedule:
- submission deadline for manuscript abstracts: January 4, 2013
- notification of acceptance: February 1, 2013
- submission deadline for full manuscripts: May 1, 2013
- expected date of publication: June 30, 2013
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Issue 1(1)
International Professional Communication
yesterday ‹ today › tomorrow
Whether you are a practicing professional whose job requires print or online communication, an academic teaching and researching professional communication, or a student learning about the area, you probably agree that communication in and related to work and civic activity has become increasingly more international in the last thirty years.
You may have noticed that written, oral, and visual communication sent and received across a room, a city, a country, a continent, or around the globe, in a fraction of a second, has greatly supplanted communication in person or by landline phone or written or typewritten on paper and then sent by fax, truck, train or airplane to its destination. You may also have observed that creating goods and services and the accompanying documentation in other countries or continents to be used in different parts of the world is a far more widespread practice now than two or three decades ago when most organizations performed these tasks internally. You may even have noticed that knowledge itself is no longer the distant province of elites from your own or other countries, or something that people acquire in an initial period of formal education for the rest of their lives, but rather a resource that is constantly renewed, enlarged, disseminated, and acquired by individuals anywhere in the world who are brought together by similar interests and activities and the facilitating power of technology. And with greater access to knowledge, means of travel and communication, people are, you may have realized, more attentive to other languages and cultures—in a word, more cosmopolitan.
As someone who depends on efficient and effective communication to get your messages across and to understand the messages of others, you have certainly given considerable thought, and even spoken and written about the ways international professional communication influences, and is influenced by context.
The first issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional aims at examining the field from your point of view on
- the past, present, and foreseeable future of the practice, research, and teaching of international professional communication, in local, national, international, and global contexts,
and/or - how the practice, research, and teaching of international professional communication has reacted to changes in context, and acted upon its contexts, in different parts of the world.
To participate, please submit brief position papers, or literature reviews addressing the above concerns with regard to these topics:
- The field of international 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).
- International professional communication in specific areas of the world.
- Communication and information management.
- Communities of practice and ethics.
- Education and professional development.
- History, theory/theories, research.
- Human-computer interface and interaction.
- Information delivery and quality.
- Information design and visual communication.
- Information development and artifacts.
- Knowledge domains, databases, terminology.
- Rhetoric and functional communication.
- Tools and technologies.
- Translation, interpretation, internationalization, localization, globalization, controlled languages.
- Types of communication and work processes.
Submission procedures:
- Submit
- cover page containing your name, institutional affiliation, and email address);
- 400-500 word manuscript (complete position paper, or literature review).
- Prepare the cover page and manuscript on letter or A4 size pages, 1.5 line spacing, and Georgia, 12-point font.
- Save the cover page and manuscript in doc, docx, rtf, or pdf format.
- You may contribute to more than one topic.
- Submit your proposal by email to the Editor at editor@connexionsjournal.org. In your email, please specify
- the topic under which you want to list your paper;
- whether you are submitting a position paper, or a literature review.
If you have any questions about your proposal, feel free to contact the Editor.
Schedule:
- Proposal deadline: February 7, 2012.
- Notification of acceptance: March, 2012.
- Date of publication: December, 2012 (new publishing date).
Thank you for considering writing a paper for the First Issue of connexions • international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional.
Rosário Durão
Editor
connexions • international professional communication journal (ISSN 2325-6044) is edited by Rosário Durão, and hosted by the Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences at the New Mexico Tech. © 2012–2013. All rights reserved.
