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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The editors of many of our publications in technical and professional communication invite you to a Zoom-based listening session
on anti-racism and inclusion practices in publication editing and academic publishing. We will hold two sessions: October 15, 2020, at 3:30 Central, and October 26th at 3:30 Central. You are welcome to come to either or both. While we recognize the potential
problems of sharing an open Zoom link (included after the body of this invitation), we want everyone to have the option to join us, even anonymously if desired. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our goal with this field-wide Editor’s Roundtable is to flip the script of a traditional editor’s roundtable and listen to your
concerns, queries, and comments about current publication practices. Many of us, as editors, are rethinking our publication review policies through explicit anti-racist, inclusionary lenses. Many of us are doing this work individually, or with the help of
our organizations and/or editorial boards. But we want your help. We want to hear your thoughts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our listening session will be moderated by Dr. Janine Utell, Editor of <i>The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945</i> and
Secretary of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and representatives from the current editorial group will be available, though our role will be to <i>listen to you and take notes</i>. We will then take what we hear back to our group and publications
and try to strengthen our anti-racist and inclusionary practices. For those not able to make the session, or those who would like to participate in asynchronous or anonymous ways, we are also providing a survey for your feedback: </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwUDZd1nfo_cmxf60PlC7d1_8TZbWPUI9dWHnrvvyziJooMg/viewform"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwUDZd1nfo_cmxf60PlC7d1_8TZbWPUI9dWHnrvvyziJooMg/viewform</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">From this listening session, we are hoping to glean insight that we can turn into action items at our publications from the following
types of prompts:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In what ways would you hope to see the field's publication venues be more accountable to scholars from underrepresented groups?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">How might our submissions processes more clearly invite diverse scholarship and research perspectives? </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What, if any, outreach or mentoring would you like to see our publications offer to underrepresented authors to assist in your writing process towards publication? </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In what areas of the discipline do we need better editorial board, staff, and author representation to ensure our peer-review, copyediting, and publications are more inclusive?</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What peer review or submission guidelines would you look for in a publication to feel welcome as an author?</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We hope these and any related questions you have spark feedback we editors can use to build accountability partners, continue
a dialogue on anti-racism and scholarly communications, and implement a more equitable, inclusive publishing practice for the discipline. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We look forward to hearing your thoughts on October 15, 2020, at 3:30 Central and on October 26, 2020, at 3:30 Central. Please
feel free to join for one or both sessions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Editors in Technical and Professional Communication</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4043;background:white">We are inviting you to a scheduled Auburn University Zoom e-meeting. If you're a new participant,
we have a quick start guide here:</span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://aub.ie/zoomquickstart"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C4043;background:white;text-decoration:none"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A73E8;background:white">https://aub.ie/zoomquickstart</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4">Dr. Derek G. Ross</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4">Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4">Editor, <i><u><a href="https://sigdoc.acm.org/publication/" title="https://sigdoc.acm.org/publication/"><span style="color:#4472C4">Communication Design Quarterly</span></a></u></i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4">Co-Director, <a href="http://cla.auburn.edu/lucia/" title="http://cla.auburn.edu/lucia/"><span style="color:#4472C4">Laboratory for Usability, Communication, Interaction, and Accessibility</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4">9030 Haley Center, Auburn University |334-844-9073 |<u><a href="http://www.derekross.com"><span style="color:#4472C4">http://www.derekross.com</span></a></u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#4472C4">Pronouns: he/him/his</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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