From looking at the home page of the Triple Helix Website, we can see that this organization is pretty near and dear to Cornell. I remember going to one of the meetings and thinking that writing about science, especially that done at Cornell, would be a daunting task. Since research done at such an institution has a certain degree of reputation and prestige, the audience for such articles would be more trusting of our research. On the flip side, this also means that well educated people from other institutions could use our research to supplement their theories, and thus be able to critique the articles published.
This website provides quick links to the most recent stories and issues being researched at leading research institutions. We can see that some of the articles are really relevant, recent and have some form of conflict- key ingredients to make for interesting reading.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
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I've done layout for TH! It's pretty amazing how this all started with one student at Cornell. Talk about science communication in action.
No way! That is so cool. Do you know if other students or faculty or someone does peer review for the articles before they are published?
Hmm, the editing process is pretty solid. You submit a draft to the main writing editor, and you have several meetings before finalizing. Although some of the articles I laid out were still a bit rough. Depends on the school size. I'm not 100% up with the writing process since I used to be layout editor. I haven't been able to put time in this school year because of research.
I might be of help in this discussion, because I actually am a Senior Literary Editor for The Triple Helix. It's very tiered and heirarchical, with the articles going through many layers of editing before they're actually published. All aspects of the journal's writing, publication, and distribution are student-run. At each chapter around the world, one may serve as both a writer and an associate editor-- which is the first level of editing. Then drafts go to the Editor-in-Chief at the school's chapter, whereby he/she sends them to a Senior Literary Editor (which is what I am) who is responsible for final edits on several chapters' articles. The articles are then sent back to the writers, who revise them, and are also looked at by members of a Faculty Review Board. (The members of the FRB are not actually involved at the writing level, they just look at the writers' work and comment on the content and areas to develop, etc.) Then, after another round of editing through all the tiers of editors, the best articles are selected by each chapter for international publication (each TTH journal contains all articles written by that particular chapter, plus the articles that are selected from the International Feature Pool).
I began as a writer and an Associate Editor at Cornell's chapter of TTH-- if you're interested in getting involved in the Cornell chapter (whereby you may move up to work internationally with the journal) you can email me and I'll refer you to the Editor-in-Chief of this chapter!
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