Coming This Semester: “Chordeiles”!

Coming this semester: “Chordeiles”! (KOR – DYE – LEES): Chordeiles is an interdisciplinary online peer-reviewed journal of student writing across the sciences! We hope to have the first issue published this fall. To do so, we need faculty help!

Chordeiles will publish student-authored writings in the sciences, including novel research and studies, exemplary lab reports, essays, research writing, environmental and nature writing, scientific translation, medical writing, poetry, science fiction and everything else that students create … as long as it is connected to the sciences in some way.

In addition, Chordeiles wants to publish scientific illustration, drawing and artwork, photography, exemplary data and graphics presentations, and all other science-related genres of communication!

This is novel work! NO COMMUNITY COLLEGE in the nation has a publication like we envision! We are breaking new ground … so, if you want to join in the effort, just ask!

How Faculty can help:

• Consider creating assignments that can lead to publication in Chordeiles. If you need help designing an assignment that could fit in Chordeiles, or would like to inquire about it, just reach out! We are happy to help.
• Suggest, recommend, and encourage that students submit their awesome science-related creations to Chordeiles for consideration.
• Tell your students about the opportunity to publish or to join the student staff! (We will be recruiting STUDENT EDITORS very soon!)
• Volunteer to be a Faculty Reviewer of student submissions (a great AAPDO!) We will have many opportunities for faculty across the disciplines to read, review, and critique student writing. No matter your discipline, we will have need of faculty expertise in the review process.

We will be sending out our first Call for Submission soon!

For more info, or to volunteer to be a Faculty Reviewer, or to join us in creating the journal, just contact any of us:

Alex Bohn abohn@nvcc.edu
Jen Nardacci jnardacci@nvcc.edu  
Manori Nadesalingam mnadesalingam@nvcc.edu  
Robin Rohrback, Robin rrohrback@nvcc.edu  
Kansal, Ritu rkansal@nvcc.edu  
Gkigkitzis, Ioannis igkigkitzis@nvcc.edu
Schuhart, Arthur L. aschuhart@nvcc.edu

*Chordeiles derives from the scientific name for NOVA’s mascot, the Nighthawk, (Chordeiles minor).

Submitted by:
Art Schuhart, AN-English Professor, ASchuhart@nvcc.edu