SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Manuscripts should be sent by email as an attachment to Elisabeth@babincentral.com or herzhauserb@pcsb.org.  Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including quotations, endnotes, and works cited), with standard margins. Word 2000 or later is preferred. Authors using Macintosh software should save their work as Word for Windows. Please save copies of anything you send us. We cannot return any materials to authors.
• In general, manuscripts for articles should be no more than ten to fifteen double-spaced, typed pages in length (approximately 2,500 to 3,750 words).
• Do not submit work that has been published elsewhere.
• Number all pages.
• Use in-text documentation, following the current edition of the MLA Handbook. Where applicable, a list of works cited and any other bibliographic information should also follow MLA style.
• List your name, address, school affiliation, telephone number, and email address on the title page only, not on the manuscript. Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged by email, when possible, or by mail.

 The FEJ accepts ideas and/or manuscripts for the following:

Guest editorial/letters to the editor.  Comment on any aspect of the FEJ.  We may edit your comments as required by space constraints.

Features: Send us essays that reflect what you teach and why you teach (with an emphasis on how being a teacher in Florida affects you).  How do you adjust your classroom to meet current educational requirements? Theme issues can submit material based on the theme.

Original artwork/cartoons/poetry.  Send us your best artwork, cartoons, and poetry. All artwork is printed in black and white. Submit drawings on 8.5-in. x 11-in. unlined paper or on CD. The artist should sign drawings.

Professional Book reviews:  Tell us about a practitioner’s book that has been especially helpful to you in the classroom, or tell us about the best contemporary young adult literature you have encountered.FC

Children’s and Young Adult Book Reviews:  Tell us about notable children’s and young adult literature that work as effective models of writing and literacy instruction in the classroom at all levels. 

 Teaching  tips:  Share with your fellow teachers items you have used successfully in your classroom: lessons, books, Web sites, classroom management techniques, etc.

Copy this: Simply send us one of your favorite original assignments. Include background information on yourself and guidelines for the assignment (appropriate grade level and time management).

Online information: Send any new relevant online information. Include who and what the site could be geared for and how you have used it.

News and Views: Provide information on any new state or national legislation that is relevant to our profession; you may state your opinion on it, or simply relay the facts.

For themes and deadlines or to submit manuscripts, contact:  Elisabeth Denisar-Babin and Betty Herzhauser, Managing Editors Florida English Journal    email to: elisabeth@babincentral.com or herzhauserb@pcsb.org.    Receipt of manuscript will be acknowledged.

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