Examining Editor-Author Ethics: Real-World Scenarios from Interviews with Three Journal Editors

Nicole Amare; Alan Manning

doi:10.2190/tw.39.3.e

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication Jul 2009

Examining Editor-Author Ethics: Real-World Scenarios from Interviews with Three Journal Editors

Nicole Amare University of South Alabama ; Alan Manning Brigham Young University

Abstract

Those who submit manuscripts to academic journals may benefit from a better understanding of how editors weigh ethics in their interactions with authors. In an attempt to ascertain and to understand editors' ethics, we interviewed 3 current academic journal editors of technical and/or business communication journals. We asked them about the ethical dilemmas they encountered while working with authors, whether the editors formally or informally followed a “code of ethics,” and if they felt obligated to maintain any ethical codes in particular. In this article, we discuss the ethical dimensions of editorial practices using specific ethical scenarios provided by these three editors. We then analyze these scenarios using traditional ethical models in our field but also in terms of a less-known but powerful model of ethical analysis originally proposed by the philosopher C. S. Peirce. We argue that Peirce's “community of inquiry” ethics model best describes these journal editors' ethics when working with authors.

Journal: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published: 2009-07-01
DOI: 10.2190/tw.39.3.e
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