Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2020 Open Access

Locating Our Editorial and Intellectual Selves Through and Within the Pages of Reflections: A Personal Reflection

Reva E. Sias

Abstract

This article celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Reflections Journal, as a premier publication in service learning, public writing, rhetoric, community literacy, and activism. The author applauds Reflections as a space that nurtures emerging voices and professional development, even prior to the printing of individual volumes and issues. In general, the author showcases four professional collaborations between doctoral students, early-career professionals, and/or more seasoned scholars that are demonstrated through and within select special issues in Reflections. More specifically, the author recalls successes and challenges of editorship when taking on the duties as a coeditor for an African American literacy special issue. The author highlights visible and mostly invisible editorial processes, reflects on the labor of editing submissions, and discusses high and low stakes editorial choices that impacted the final production of the special issue. The author makes the case that editing and editorial decisions may illuminate scholarly voices, show community engagement, and reify pre- and early-career professional development, which has been a twenty-year hallmark of Reflections.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2020-04-01
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10.59236/rjv20i1pp132-143
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rhetorical criticism graduate education service learning professional writing literacy studies race and writing community literacy
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