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<div class="">Dear colleagues,</div>
<div class="">We are planning on continuing with the Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization online journal. In the decade since its founding by Dr. Barry Thatcher, the RPCG journal has published a great many scholarly articles that examines
the complex intersections of rhetoric, professional communication, and globalization. In this unprecedented time, the RPCG holds significant value to scholars and practitioners in technical and professional communication. </div>
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<div class="">Dr. Thatcher is stepping down as the editor-in-chief. I’m taking on the responsibility. We are looking for a technical editor, who will help manage the digital publishing of the journal.</div>
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<div class="">Specifically, you will be working with the editor on the following responsibilities:</div>
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<li class="">Set up and manage the journal content management system; must be able to work with Unix</li><li class="">Assist the Editor-in-Chief in online submissions management and digital publishing; RPCG uses the open journal system: <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpkp.sfu.ca%2Fojs%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cquan.zhou%40metrostate.edu%7Caac304a34ea14a5d13ec08d83f974d66%7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f%7C0%7C0%7C637329266361394752&sdata=fIaitsr7nybySXueL%2FX7ExsFYqHJSPeY1xQqrVSlLXo%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/" shash="yoQAbZWuoTbcbgEenFsl1tVut1l8yh2mSnkYKRMdKRsmd9+QauUeG4Ktdu79i8Bxkc26fFzXv19GUb6y5uZJKiIwuFwbbS+59DhUUPtN0Ik1WLr+EH7fN2S1f9Ggf49UCGAk0HTT6gHgrJ/5/1j821/niatryyF0X4BiZO+JpD4=" class="">https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs</a></li><li class="">Update the journal website with new content</li><li class="">Maintain the journal archive</li></ul>
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<div class="">The journal is published twice a year. If you are interested, please contact me with a description of your relevant skills. A short resume is appreciated. </div>
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<div class="">The following is an introduction of the RPCG journal:</div>
<div class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This Journal publishes articles on the theory, practice, and teaching of professional communication in
critical global contexts. Articles can take a variety of forms, including formal empirical studies, illustrative case studies, book, software, and academic program review, and curriculum development. The Journal is predominantly cross cultural, concentrating
on how professionals from a variety of cultural and rhetorical traditions communicate with each other across a range of contexts using various communication media. </span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The Journal welcomes articles with diverse rhetorical styles, modes of inquiries, and contexts of research, but the articles
are to be submitted in English (in all its varieties) and grounded in relevant theory and appropriate empirical research methods. All articles will conform to the APA style guide.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Objectives:</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Improve our research, teaching, and practice of professional communication in global contexts.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Develop better theoretical models of global professional communication.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Develop more valid and ethical research methodologies for global professional communication.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Improve the practice of global business and manufacturing through more effective communication.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Improve professional communication research and practice in critical cross-cultural and international contexts such
as the environment, law, immigration, health, energy, economics, and human rights.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Develop issues and research agendas that address the most pressing issues and challenges for communicating in the context
of globalization.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Develop better curricula and materials for teaching global professional communication not only in the United States
and Europe, but around the world. Special attention will be given developing culturally sensitive curricula of professional communication for the developing world, including parts of Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and India.</span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Address the influence of new communication technologies in global professional contexts. </span><br style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif;" class="">
<span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">• Improve our ability to use professional communication to address issues of social justice in the context of globalization.</span></div>
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Quan Zhou, Ph.D.<br class="">
Chair and Professor<br class="">
Director, Master of Science in Technical Communication<br class="">
Director, Graduate Certificate in the Design of User Experience<br class="">
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Department of Technical Communication & Interaction Design<br class="">
School of Communication, Writing, and the Arts<br class="">
College of Liberal Arts<br class="">
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Metropolitan State University, Twin Cities, MN<br class="">
A Member of Minnesota State<br class="">
<a href="mailto:quan.zhou@metrostate.edu" class="">quan.zhou@metrostate.edu</a></div>
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