Rhetorical Research and Didactics - within RHEFINE Erasmus+ project
Dear
colleague,
We would like to invite you to contribute a
chapter to a volume we are preparing within RHEFINE Erasmus+ project.
RHEFINE is a two-year KA2
Erasmus Strategic Partnership in the field of higher education. It is
coordinated by the Centre for Applied Rhetoric (University of Warsaw, Poland) and the partners include The
Department of Phonetics (University of Zagreb, Croatia) and the Institute of Rhetoric and Communications (Bulgaria).
The project's aim is to reform
the academic teaching of rhetoric, but also to create a rhetorical pedagogy
network and a knowledge hub which can be applied not only at university level,
but also in secondary and lifelong education .
The
aim of the book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current research
and teaching practices in the field of rhetoric. The working title of the
volume is Rhetorical Research and Didactics and our wish is to include
enthusiastic scholars who perceive rhetorical skills as tools for professional
success in the 21st century.
The
book will have two major sections (or two volumes depending on the
contributors’ interest) covering research and didactics. Rhetorical research is
important not only for the insights it provides, but also as a resource for
contemporary (problem-based) approach to teaching. On the other hand, chapters
on didactics (covering various aspects of teaching i.e. assessment) fill in the
gap on comprehensive resources in the field.
We encourage the authors to present good practices, case studies,
innovative methods, training courses or workshops.
We
feel that the proposed book will be of both interest and use to various profiles
of educators, not only university teachers and we are enthusiastic about making
it happen.
If
you are interested in this venture, as we hope you are, please take note of the
following:
An
abstract of 300 words should be
submitted to the editors by email (diana.tomic@gmail.com, jvduic@gmail.com, elenmari.pletikos@gmail.com) preferably by 15 December, 2021. Abstracts should feature the working title of
the proposed chapter, the author or authors responsible for it, together with
the details of the corresponding author.
Prospective
authors are encouraged to write a chapter specifically
for the volume. However, it is also possible to draw on already published work,
adapting this to address the volume theme. Copyright clearance for work that
has already been published is entirely the responsibility of the contributing
authors.
Chapters
need to be written in English, and
language editing is the responsibility of the authors.
The
editors will choose the most
promising abstracts from those submitted: the criteria that will be used here
are: relevance to the goals set out for the volume, originality, theoretical or
empirical grounding and application in teaching.
We
are inviting scholars from various countries and rhetorical backgrounds to
include a wide range of methodological and theoretical approaches. Prospective
authors will be informed of our decision by 22 December 2021. Feedback will be provided so as to ensure that
selected chapters are written in ways that contribute organically to the volume
planned.
The
first draft of the chapter is to
reach the editors by 15 February 2021.
Reviews will be sent to authors by 15
April 2021, and final versions
will need to be submitted by 1 May 2022.
Chapters
will need to be around 6 000 words in
length. The style sheet for references and bibliography will be forwarded to
all authors whose abstract has been selected for the volume.
In
case your idea does not match the concept of the volume, the contribution can
find its place in other publications our network is involved in (journals,
conference proceedings etc.) so we encourage you to send it to us.
We hope you will feel able to respond
positively to this invitation, and we look forward to hearing from you. In case
you have any additional questions feel free to contact us. Finally, if you want
to share the info with colleague/s, PhD students, professional/organizational
mailing lists, please do :).
On
behalf of RHEFINE team
Diana
Tomić, Jelena Vlašić Duić and Elenmari Pletikos Olof
Department
of Phonetics
Faculty
of Humanities and Social Sciences
University
of Zagreb
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