Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:41:00 +0800
From: Saurabh Kudesia
Dear Colleagues,
Here is your chance to submit articles for peer review and publication
in the coming editions of the KnowGenesis International Journal for
Technical Communication (IJTC). Short columns, letters, reviews
(book/product/technology), short technical releases, and study
abstracts are also welcome. Articles are accepted on the basis that
they will make a lasting contribution to the technical literature.
About KnowGenesis IJTC
KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication (IJTC)
is a freely available, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to
making accessible the results of research across a wide range of
information-related disciplines under Technical Communication.
KnowGenesis is proud to have authors listed from prestigious
institutes like NISCAIR, University of Mississippi, University of
Calcutta, STC IIT, IIIT, TIFR, Syracuse University, Clemson
University, Iowa State University of Science and Technology,
Pennsylvania State University, National Informatics Centre (India),
Lenta (Russia), Chabot-Las (California), Washington State Department
of Information Services, GE Research and STC Chapters, to
name a few.
KnowGenesis IJTC became the first Indian Journal listed by American
Education Research Association (AERA) SIG Communication of Research.
AERA SIG list is a prestigious list of electronic journals consisting
of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals, which are accessible without
cost.
UNESCO and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) UK have also included
KnowGenesis IJTC in their list of International journals. Recently,
KnowGenesis IJTC was reviewed by none other than Dr. Taher,
Information Researcher, Canada (visit
http://mtindias.blogspot.com/2006/06/new-e-journal-knowgenesis.html).
Focus and Scope
KnowGenesis International Journal for Technical Communication
publishes both refereed papers and working papers. KnowGenesis invites
submissions of high quality papers on all areas of technical
communication, including but not limited to the areas listed below.
- Agenda setting in communication
- Ancient documentation practices
- Automation techniques in documentation
- Collaborative writing
- Communication history
- Communication psychology
- Convergence
- Curriculum design
- Documentation practices
- Documentation strategies
- Effect of information design decisions
- Engineering writing
- Ethics of business communication
- Eye-tracking, qualitative data analysis tools and other technologies
as usability research tools
- Fuzzy logic, neural networks, Fractals and chaos
- Information and communication technology for development
- Information and technology management
- Information ethics, principles and policies
- Information science
- Information systems
- Instructional designing
- Intelligent interfaces
- International communication
- Internet based research
- Knowledge base architecture
- Knowledge-based systems, genetic algorithms
- Managerial communication
- Medical documentation
- Open source initiatives
- Qualitative data analysis
- Rapid prototyping in documentation practices
- Single sourcing mechanism
- Technical communication
- Technical writing pedagogy
- Visual communication
How to Submit?
Submission can be done anytime using the online submission system
available at (
http://www.knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=about&op=submissions).
For faster response, send your work directly to the IJTC editorial
team at editorinchief@knowgenesis.org with Subject line: Article
Submission: <article name>
Submission Preparation Checklist
1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before
another journal for consideration.
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect
document file format.
3. All URL addresses in the text are activated and ready to click.
4. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text
at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. Substantial references material has been included to support your work.
6. Brief profile, affiliation information, email address, and latest
passport size photographs of all the authors has been included with
the paper.
7. The writing style confirms to Chicago Manual of Style.
Previous Issues
Previous issues of the Journal are available at
http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?
journal=IJTC&page=issue&op=archive and at
http://www.knowgenesis.org/tc. One time FREE is required to access the
Journal content online. Please note that you cannot use your
KnowGenesis Online library ( www.knowgenesis.org/tc) credentials for
getting access to the Journal site.
You can also get the previous issue by writing a request to the KG
IJTC Editor-in-chief at editorinchief@knowgenesis.org. For FREE
registration to the Journal, visit
http://knowgenesis.net/journal/index.php?journal=IJTC&page=user&op=register
or send your subscription request to editorinchief@knowgenesis.org.
More Information
For more information on KnowGenesis Journal, visit
www.knowgenesis.net/journal or mail us at
editorinchief@knowgenesis.org with your queries.
Volunteering for IJTC
Interested in volunteering for KnowGenesis? We are always looking for
volunteers to support our activities. If you think that you have the
right blend of enthusiasm, talent and approach, write to us at
editorinchief@knowgenesis.org along with your profile, for
consideration.
We are looking forward for your active participation to give more
values to the KnowGenesis IJTC.
Best wishes,
--
Saurabh Kudesia
Editor-in-chief
KnowGenesis IJTC
editorinchief@knowgenesis.org
www.knowgenesis.net/journal
