ERIC Number: EJ855623
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 19
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Examining Editor-Author Ethics: Real-World Scenarios from Interviews with Three Journal Editors
Amare, Nicole; Manning, Alan
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, v39 n3 p285-303 2009
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.
Descriptors: Periodicals, Publishing Industry, Ethics, Technical Writing, Business Communication, Writing for Publication, Faculty Publishing, Scholarship, Editing, Intellectual Property, Plagiarism, Trust (Psychology), Interprofessional Relationship, Peer Evaluation, Inquiry
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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