GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWERS

Please follow these guidelines when submitting book reviews for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication:

1. Review length should be 1000-1500 words. Please double-space your review and use 12-point Times New Roman or a similar font for the entire text, including the heading material in item (2).

2. The heading of your review should contain the items below, in the order listed.

• Name of book author(s)
• Book title (and subtitle, if applicable), in italics
• "Book Review" heading
• "A Feature by" heading
• Your name (and membership status, if a member of IEEE)
• Your professional affiliation, address, and email address
• "Book Publisher" heading
• Place of publication, publisher, and date
• Number of pages in the book and whether there is an index
• Index terms (optional)

3. You may submit your review electronically (preferred) or by mail:

• To submit your review electronically, please send it via e-mail as an attachment in MS Word for Windows. Fax your signed copyright form to 218.834.2508 or return it by mail.
• To submit your review by mail, please send two printed copies and a disk copy. On the diskette, note the operating system and word processing system that you use. (Please use MS Word or WordPerfect for Windows if possible.) Label the diskette with your name, the book title, and the book author's name.
• Send a signed copy of the copyright form to the editor (contact info. below), either by postal mail or by fax.

4. The book review editor reserves the right to edit for length, style, or clarity; if substantive changes are needed, the review will be referred back to the review author.

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CONTACT INFO. FOR BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

If you have questions, feel free to contact the book review editor (e-mail is best):

Kathryn Riley
Lewis Department of Humanities
218 Siegel Hall - 3300 S. Dearborn
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616

Email: kriley@ieee.org
Voicemail: 312.567.3566
Fax: 312.567.5187

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BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW—Updated September 2004

• The following books are available for review. Before requesting a book for review, potential reviewers are encouraged to visit the publisher's Website to find out more about the book; URLs are provided below, when available.
  
• To request a book for review, or to suggest a book not listed here for review, contact the book review editor, Kathryn Riley: kriley@ieee.org.

Bazerman, Charles, & David Russell (eds.). Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives. Published solely in electronic format (html and pdf) by The WAC Clearinghouse and Mind, Culture, Activity. http://wac.colostate.edu/books/selves_societies/

Bridgeford, Tracy, Karla Saari Kitalong, and Dickie Selfe, Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. (368 pp.) http://www.usu.edu/usupress

Fielden, John S., Jean D. Gibbons, and Ronald E. Dulek, Throw Me the Bottom Line...I'm Drowing in E-mail!: Bob's Rules for Managing the E-mail Crisis. Fort Pierce, FL: Pioneer River Press, 2003. (102 pp.) http://www.PioneerRiver.com

Reiff, Mary Jo. Approaches to Audience: An Overview of the Major Perspectives. Chicago: Parlay Press, 2004. (161 pp.) http://www.parlaypress.com

Yotsukura, Lindsay Amthor. Negotiating Moves: Problem Presentation and Resolution in Japanese Business Discourse. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2003. (370 pp.) http://elsevier.com

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