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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF A MANUSCRIPT: Authoring, Reviewing, and Editing

Sponsor:  Communication Theory

Chair:	Kenneth N. Cissna, University of South Florida

"From the Perspective of the Author"  
Dean Scheibel, Loyola Marymount University

"From the Perspective of Reviewer A"  
Jill J. McMillan, Wake Forest University

"From the Perspective of Reviewer B"  
Joann Keyton, University of Kansas

"From the Perspective of the Editor"  
Kenneth N. Cissna, University of South Florida

This panel explores the process of publishing an article in a scholarly journal, taking Dean Scheibel's recent article, "The Cat with the `Strat' Comes Back:  A Burkeian-Weickian Primer for Organizing Narrative," published in the Spring 2002 issue of the Southern Communication Journal, as the specific case.