Newly Launched Journal Features Noel Studio Collaborators

The Peer Review launched at the recent International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) conference held in Pittsburgh, PA. The new journal features collaboratively written student and faculty publications. As a fully online, open-access, and multimodal webtext for the promotion of scholarship by graduate, undergraduate, and high school practitioners and their collaborators, The Peer Review aims to sustain writing center research and researchers.

Issue Zero features articles that guide the publication process for potential student-faculty author teams. The issue offers perspectives on preparing research and writing for publication.

One of the journal’s unique features is that it will publish multimodal projects that include, for example, visual elements and videos. Forming an authorship team for the first issue, Brenta Blevins, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Stacy Rice, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and former graduate consultant in the Noel Studio, and Dr. Russell Carpenter, Director of the Noel Studio, published an article entitled “Designing Scholarly Multimodal Texts: A Peer Review Process,” which "offers suggestions and remediates posters into compelling, scholarly multimodal submissions for The Peer Review.” One of the article’s most important contributions is that it includes decisions authors should consider when remediating text for journal publication.

The Noel Studio offers consultations on multimodal projects from posters to slideshows, and the article builds on many concepts for guiding writers that were developed in the program. Student-faculty coauthor teams interested in submitting to The Peer Review can find the manuscript guidelines online. 

Published on October 12, 2015