El Rio: A Student Research Journal

Class Meeting

Topics

Activities/Homework

Week 1

• Review the syllabus
• Academic journals and open access
• COPE guidelines
• Group work and expectation agreements

• Journal profiling

Week 2

• Journal management and editorial roles
• Introduction to peer review

• OJS orientation

Week 3

• Production timeline

• Project management planning

Week 4

• Peer review by discipline

• Mock peer review exercise

Week 5

Week 6

• Introduction to copy editing
• Copy editing conventions by discipline

• Copyediting exercise

Week 7

• Introduction to layout editing
• Layout editing in practice

• Layout editing exercise

Week 8

• Indexing, discoverability, and archiving
• Marketing and readership

• Marketing collateral
• Keywords exercise