English Council of California Two-Year Colleges

inside english

About inside english

The English Council publishes inside english, a journal whose largest reading audience are English faculty in California’s 111 community colleges. Promoting excellence in teaching English, the journal provides a forum for discussion of issues in teaching lower division composition and literature and serves as a vehicle for writers to express their ideas and challenge assumptions.

English department institutional membership in ECCTYC includes copies of i.e. for all English faculty. Individual subscriptions are also available.

From the Editor

Have you found a forum to express your ideas about what good teaching is in the two-year college? Do you have an exceptional or particularly effective teaching strategy you would like to share with colleagues from across the state? If so, inside english, the journal of the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges, would like to hear from you.

In inside english, you’ll find articles that discuss the variety of challenges that confront you daily as a community college instructor: the teaching of composition, literature, creative writing, English as a second language, and writing-across-the-disciplines; in addition, we publish shorter articles on professional development ideas and opportunities and alternative classroom approaches.

You’ll also read i.e.‘s occasional columns — “Point of View” (philosophical or opinion pieces), “Talking Back” (responses to an article published in a recent issue), “One Good Idea” (descriptions of one teaching technique or assignment), “Part-Time Faculty Concerns,” and “Reviews” (reviews of textbooks, novels, films, or software used in teaching) — as well as poetry and letters to the editor.

Topic Ideas

If you have writer’s block or cannot think of a subject to write about, consider some of these ideas or let them stimulate other topics about which you can write:

Some Possible Topics

• the 16-week calendar
• assembly bills that affect our teaching profession
• the teacher-scholar
• classroom research
• working conditions
• multiple measures and placement tests
• differential units
• tenure review
• hiring
• learning outcomes
• curriculum development
• IMPAC
• part-time teaching issues
• teaching basic skills
• basic writing
• first year composition
• business & technical writing
• creative writing and its pedagogy
• literature
• writing center
• classroom management
• new teachers
• writing a syllabus
• communication & competency
• technology in the classroom
• teaching in CAI (“smart”) classrooms
• cyber-cheating/plagiarism
• guides to avoid plagiarism
• blogging

Occasional Columns

• “Point of View”
• “News and Notes”
• “Talking Back”
• “One Good Idea”
• “Part-Time Faculty Concerns”
• “Reviews”
• “Best Practices”
• “Department Chairs”

Submissions

Please observe the following schedules for your manuscript to be included in the publication.

• Deadline for the Spring issue is on January 30 the same year
• Deadline for the Fall issue is on May 30 the same year

Guidelines

1. All manuscripts must follow the most recent version of The MLA Style Manual and The NCTE Guidelines for Gender-Fair Use of language. Spelling should conform to The American Heritage Dictionary.
2. Only electronic submissions will be considered.
3. If you submit a hard copy of your manuscript, you must either send the electronic version on disk or e-mail it to the editor. Be sure to include a SASE if you would like your manuscript returned.
4. Digital formats accepted: Microsoft Word or RTF.
5. Email electronic manuscripts as file attachments to the editor.
6. Manuscripts received after the deadline for a given issue will be considered for the next appropriate issue.

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