<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>I'm putting together a special section of a future issue of the <i>Journal of Business and Technical Communication </i>about the role business, technical, and scientific communication play during this pandemic. <a href="https://www.jordanfrith.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JBTC_CovidCFP.pdf">The full CFP is here.</a> We want the issue to be timely, so we're doing something different from traditional publishing. </div><div><ul><li>The articles will all be 1000-1500 words. They will still be peer reviewed. </li><li>The deadlines are vast accelerated. I need 75 word abstracts a week from today. </li><li>The drafts of the 1000-1500 word articles are due in about a month</li><li>Peer review will be sped up to ensure fast turnaround. Authors will be blind reviewing other authors' work. </li><li>Final revisions for everything need to be in to the copyeditors by June 15. </li></ul><div>I know those timelines seem a bit daunting, especially with everything else going on. But the articles are shorter, so we're hoping to avoid some of the problems with academic publishing where we aren't able to get any work out about the great work you're doing for another 12-18 months. I'm open to different topics, including but not limited to</div><div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>Communicating expertise to the public</p>
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</span></span>Understanding or misusing data visualizations</p>
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</span></span>Combatting the spread of misinformation online</p>
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</span></span>Analyzing rhetorics of health and medicine
during a pandemic</p>
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</span></span>Producing infographics to capture the impact of COVID-19</p>
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</span></span>Analyzing the new terminology we use during this
pandemic (e.g., “social distancing”)</p>
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</span></span>Discussing instructional material (e.g., how to
social distance or how to wear a mask)</p>
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</span></span>Understanding businesses’ or institutions’
public or internal response to the pandemic</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>Teaching business and technical communication
during a pandemic.</p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:11pt">Please let me know if you have any questions, and I'd love to hear from you. I think this special section could be great and super timely. </span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Jordan Frith, Ph.D.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Pearce Professor of Professional Communication</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Clemson University</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Pronouns: He/Him<span></span></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Book review editor of the </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Journal of Business & Technical Communication</i><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jordan-Frith/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJordan+Frith" target="_blank">My Amazon author page</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>