Journal Guide

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, features original articles on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy. The journal addresses an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students of rhetorics who work in communication studies, English studies, philosophy, politics and other allied fields.Submissions:Rhetoric Society Quarterly is published five times a year. Article-length manuscripts on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy are invited. Contributions should exhibit high standards for professional scolarship, and should offer new knowledge or advance the discussion on significant issues in the field of rhetoric in ways that address the work and common interests of rhetoricians who reside in a variety of disciplines.Special AnnouncementKneupper Award for 2010Rhetoric Society Quarterly is pleased to announce that the Kneupper Award for the best article in the 2010 volume of the journal is awarded to: Susan Romano, 8220;'Grand Convergence' in the Mexican Colonial Mundane: The Matter of Introductories8221; in 40:1, pages 71-93. Three members of the Editorial Board served as the award committee: David Fleming, Jean Goodwin, and Patricia Roberts-Miller (chair). Members of the committee found this essay to be 8220;extraordinary,8221; 8220;potentially transformative,8221; and 8220;startling,8221; noting that it 8220;identifies a question central to rhetorical studies8221; and serves as 8220;a model of what great rhetorical scholarship can be8212;specific and abstract, drawing canonical theorists together with noncanonical texts, and pushing the field in a genuinely new direction.8221; This award is given each year in memory of Charles Kneupper, 19498211;1989, who initiated and organized the earliest biennial RSA conferences at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he taught. Charles was an active member of RSA and mentor to many graduate students in rhetoric.This announcement will also appear in the spring issue of RSQ (41:2).Carolyn R. MillerRSQ Editor Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous peer review.Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Published for The International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Rhetorica includes articles, book reviews and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric. Published quarterly. International in scope, Rhetorica publishes articles in all periods, in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, and on any subject relevant to the history of rhetoric—from studies of rhetorical theory to interdisciplinary explorations of the relationship of rhetoric to poetics, philosophy, politics, religion, and law. The International Society for the History of Rhetoric Founded in 1977, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric includes members from thirty countries, and holds biennial congresses in Europe and North America. The purpose of the Society is to promote study of the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages. The Society fosters inquiry into the relationship of rhetoric to poetics, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, politics, religion, law, and other aspects of the cultural context. Membership in the Society is open to all individuals who subscribe to its aims. Membership includes receiving the Society's journal, Rhetorica, as well as its semi-annual, Rhetoric Newsletter. .

Risk analysis is the science of evaluating health, environmental, and engineering risks resulting from past, current, or anticipated, future activities. The use of these evaluations include providing information for determining regulatory actions to limit risk, presenting scientific evidence in legal settings, evaluating products and potential liabilities--within private organizations, resolving World Trade disputes amongst nations, and for educating the public concerning particular risk issues. Risk analysis is an interdisciplinary science that relies on epidemiology and laboratory studies, collection of exposure and other field data, computer modeling, and related social and economic and communication considerations. In addition, social dimensions of risk are addressed by social scientists. Methods of risk analysis and the outcome of particular evaluations are regularly presented in scholarly papers that are published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal and topics are as diverse as quality of drinking water, air and land contamination, the safety of foods and drugs, automobile and infrastructure safety, and risk associated with weapons of mass destruction.

The aim of Risk Management is to encourage discussion and debate on issues that arise from conventional and emerging perspectives on risk, crisis management and resilience. Risk Management publishes papers that address the range of traditional issues within risk and crisis management but also encourages multi-disciplinary perspectives on the ways in which these approaches are evolving and can be refined, refreshed and reinterpreted in light of contemporary challenges. The Journal actively seeks to publish papers that move beyond the narrow disciplinary-bounded, engineering and financial frameworks of risk, and that reflect the inter-disciplinary, boundary-less and inter-connected nature of the processes around risk, crisis and disaster.

Risks (ISSN 2227-9091) is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly open access journal of research and studies on insurance and financial risk management. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and communications; there is no restriction on the length of the papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided for research articles.