Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:
Announcing New Rhetoric & Communication Research Network
We are pleased to announce the creation of Rhetoric & Communication Research Network (RCRN) within the Humanities Network. It will provide a worldwide, online community for research in all areas of rhetoric and communication studies, following the model of other subject matter networks within SSRN.
We expect RCRN to become a comprehensive online resource for research in rhetoric and communication studies, providing scholars with access to current work in their field and facilitating research and scholarship.
RCRN’s founding director is:
David C. Logan, Lecturer, University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business and Senior Partner, CultureSync
The following Subject Matter eJournals are available within RCRN. Initially, subscriptions will be free during the start-up phase until November 2012.
HISTORY OF RHETORIC eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that examine rhetorical theories and practices of various historical periods. The topics in this journal include: Ancient & Sophistic Rhetoric; Classical Rhetoric; Enlightenment Rhetoric; Medieval Rhetoric; Modern & Postmodern Rhetoric; Nineteenth Century Rhetoric; Renaissance Rhetoric; Other topics related to History of Rhetoric not covered in the topics specifically listed.
RHETORIC & PUBLIC DISCOURSE eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on the rhetorical aspects of public discourses and that examine the intersections of rhetorical theory and other disciplines that study these discourses. The topics in this journal include: Rhetoric & Law; Rhetoric & Politics; Rhetoric & the Media; Other topics related to Rhetoric & Public Discourse not covered in the topics specifically listed.
RHETORIC EDUCATOR: COMMUNICATION, COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, & WRITING eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on writing instruction, pedagogy, classroom strategies, and the mechanics of writing, communication, and argument.
RHETORIC OF ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that analyze the documents produced by scientists and scholars in other academic disciplines. Relevant topics include writing style, special topoi, argument structure, epistemological assumptions, and other rhetorical features of academic texts.
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that focus on the persuasive strategies and other rhetorical features of texts, images, and other cultural productions.
RHETORICAL THEORY eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that explore the philosophical and theoretical issues associated with rhetorical practices. The topics in this journal include: Agency; Argumentation; Communities & Audience; Ethics & Rhetoric; Psychological Aspects of Rhetoric; Rhetorical Identity & Identification; Visual Rhetoric; Other topics related to Rhetorical Theory not covered in the topics specifically listed.
WRITING TECHNOLOGIES eJOURNAL
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Editor: David C. Logan (University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business, and CultureSync)
Description: This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts that address issues at the intersection of rhetoric and technology. The topics in this journal include: Computer Mediated Communication (CMC); Design of Communication; New Media Studies; Other topics related to Writing Technologies not covered in the topics specifically listed.
University of Ottawa Joins Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies
We are pleased to announce University of Ottawa Faculty of Law has started a Law School Research Papers – Legal Studies series within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN).
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA FACULTY OF LAW LEGAL STUDIES WORKING PAPER SERIES
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Deeply interdisciplinary, diverse and thought-provoking, the work of faculty members at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Common Law Section continues to shape legal thinking in the classroom, in legal practice, on the Bench and internationally. The University of Ottawa, a member of the U15 – Canada’s group of research-intensive universities – hosts a Faculty of Law with more Canada Research Chairs than any other law school. One of the leading research and teaching institutions on women and the law, aboriginal law, human rights, environmental law, international law, public law, legal ethics and professionalism, and law and technology, the Faculty promotes a culture of social justice, producing necessary research and writing on an array of current legal issues facing the world.
A closer look at faculty research interests uncovers topics as varied as contractual disputes over frozen embryos, governance regimes of watersheds and biodiversity, the judiciary and legal ethics, international refugee protection, investment arbitration, the protection of language rights in Canada, and the reconciliation of Coast Salish indigenous legal traditions with Canada’s common law legal system. With a strong commitment to open-access publication and disseminating cutting-edge research, the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section invites you to join the conversation through this working paper series.