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Writing Center Journal

Guidance for Reviewers

Thank you for agreeing to provide a review for the Writing Center Journal. Your labor and expertise is vital to ensuring that the articles published in this journal maintains its requisite high standard for rigor and innovation. In composing your review, we ask that you do the following:

    1) Consider if the submission would be of interest to and relevant to the diverse readership of The Writing Center Journal.

    • The submission makes a significant contribution to writing center studies and advances readers’ understanding of the topic it addresses.
    • The submission, if published, is likely to be cited by future scholars.
    • The submission is well-situated within existing relevant research and scholarship.
    • If research-driven, the methodology and methods are clearly described.
    • If theoretical, claims are convincingly explained.
    • If the submission primarily draws on anecdotes or examples from local contexts, generalizability and/or transferability to other contexts is made explicit.

    2) Compose a summative comment to the author(s) that shares your assessment of the manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses.

    • Reviewers are welcome to make additional comments in marginalia.
    • Reviewers are invited to share another, confidential report accessible only to the journal’s editors or staff.
    • Do not include your publication recommendation in any feedback to the author. This assessment should go to the editors only.
    • Do not include your name in the feedback to the author.

Note: We ask that reviewers avoid use of Generative AI tools in reviewing the manuscript or composing their review.

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