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The English Department Newsletter is intended for a very broad audience consisting of English Department faculty, staff, students, and alumni, as well as any other interested individuals within the University and in the broader community beyond. While there may be some news which is of interest only to certain narrow constituencies, most posts should be written with the broadest audience in mind. Please be sure to provide a concise, descriptive title.

Please provide each news item when it’s new (not months later)!

Contributors:

• Please send only current news, not things that happened months ago.
• For announcements of your publications and conference / workshop presentations, please send an announcement right after they have actually occurred, not when they are accepted.
• Please include full bibliographical data, not “I published an article in the journal of the Whatchahookee Society.”
• Write about yourself in the third person, please, so that the editor only has to edit, not rewrite.
• Provide links whenever possible — to the journal where you published, to the organization whose conference you presented at, to the publisher’s website for your book, etc.
• Use photos whenever they will add life to the post. Limit the width of a photo displayed in a post to about 500 pixels. Crop / resize it using a photo editor, if needed.
• Remember that you are not limited to text and photos — any media can be included in a post, including even sound or a video clip. Try to keep file sizes from becoming excessive, however, and of course, keep copyright restrictions in mind. When appropriate, link to existing media already posted elsewhere.
• Please provide any textual materials you wish editors to quote / use directly in a word processor document or in your e-mail, so that the column editor is free to copy-paste. Providing textual material only in hard-copy or PDF form will force the column editor to retype it, possibly delaying — or even preventing — its appearance in the Newsletter.
• Not sure who to send your news to? See our Contact Us page.

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• When creating a post, check off topic categories from the list of those available under the “Categories” tab.
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