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Colleagues, Please invite your talented undergraduate students to submit an application to serve as an external reviewer for Stance: an international undergraduate philosophy journal <http://stance.iweb.bsu.edu> The mission of Stance is to enrich student learning by providing an opportunity for undergraduate students to have their original scholarly work reviewed by or published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. We believe Stance is the premier undergraduate philosophy journal. Among our marks of distinction are: Stance has an International Standard Serial Number registered with the U. S. Library of Congress. We are the only undergraduate journal indexed in The Philosopher's Index. To our knowledge, we are the only undergraduate philosophy journal employing external reviewers. Our rejection rate is approximately 90 percent. External reviewers play a crucial role in maintaining the quality of Stance. All papers are carefully considered by multiple reviewers (both from our internal review board and external reviewers). Using a blind review process, we provide both submitters and reviewers a pre-professional learning opportunity to interact with a community of peers, which should further prepare students for future careers in philosophy. Each reviewer will be credited in both the electronic and high quality print version of the journal. Below are both the External Reviewer Application and the Letter of Recommendation form (to be completed by a philosophy professor familiar with the student). The DEADLINE for both is NOVEMBER 6, 2009. As a journal entirely produced and edited by undergraduates, only students who are enrolled undergraduates in January 2010 are eligible. Reviewers may submit a manuscript for publication as well. We make sure that no reviewer works on his/her own paper. Please direct all questions to stance@bsu.edu. Thanks, David W. Concepcion, PhD Managing Editor, Stance APPLICATION FOR EXTERNAL REVIEWERS Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal Reviewers will either review one or two papers in early January or serve on one of our review teams, which consider approximately 20 papers in late December. External reviewers will receive training materials that explain what is expected in the formal review. If you are interested, please provide us with the following information: Name: Name of School: Year in School: Major(s)/Minor(s): Philosophy Courses Taken: What is your specialty or concentration? What experience do you have that would qualify you for this project? What goals do you have that working on Stance will support? What, in your opinion, are the makings of a good philosophy paper? Students should (1) personally return this application to STANCE@bsu.edu. Please include “External Reviewer Application” as the subject heading. (2) Arrange for a philosophy professor to send a letter of recommendation to STANCE@bsu.edu. For more information see http://stance.iweb.bsu.edu. Deadline: Friday, November 6, 2009 LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION FOR STANCE EXTERNAL REVIEWER Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal Stance seeks your help to get better acquainted with an external reviewer applicant. Reviewers must have advanced undergraduate experience in philosophy, strong writing and editing skills, and the self-motivation necessary to meet deadlines. Please speak to the following questions in your email/letter (one page should be sufficient). Thank you for assisting us in making this important decision. Name of Student: How does this student handle deadlines? Has this student demonstrated a level of writing proficiency such that s/he can develop a useful blind review? Has this student demonstrated the good judgment necessary for writing positive, constructive reviews of peers? Does this student have sufficient experience in philosophy to provide substantive criticism of undergraduate manuscripts or the self-motivation necessary to conduct independent research to develop enough expertise to provide criticism? Recommendations should have “LOR for external reviewers” as the subject heading and be returned directly to us at STANCE@bsu.edu. Deadline: Friday, November 6, 2009 ****************************************** Costica Bradatan, H-Ideas Online Editor [AY 2009-2010] Solmsen Fellow The Institute for Research in the Humanities University Club Building University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI 53703 http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata ******************************************
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