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Electronic journal publishes student writing
DAISY BAIN
Contributing Writer
Where is a good place for
Clackamas students to publish their
best writing for everyone, including
college instructors and universities,
to see?
The “Banyan Quarterly” is an
electronic journal that highlights fac
ulty-nominated student essays of
exceptional scholarly value or artis
tic merit. It may be found on the
web, at http://depts.clackamas.
cc.us/banyan.
“We chose the web-based format
because of the universal accessibil
ity of the Internet,” explained Brad
St i les, one of two editors-in-chief of
the “Banyan.” “For instance, if we
published on paper, we’d have to
decide how many issues we could
afford to print; then we’d somehow
have to decide who would get an
issue, who we could sell issues to,
how we could distribute them, etc.
“If we publish on the web, the
number of issues is literally infinite,
determined only by the number of
browsers we can get to point our
way. In addition, students can put
the address in correspondence with
admission counselors of schools
they wish to transfer to, or in appli
cations for employment...so that
people can not only see a sample of
their work, but also that their work
has been judged excellent by the
faculty.”
The idea for this computerized
journal first came about when Stiles
was searching for a journal to which
his students could submit their
works, but found a stunning lack of
publications interested in under
graduatework.
“The ones I did find were all put
together by students, judged by stu
dents, and read by students. > Be
cause faculty members don’t jury
those journals, they don’t carry the
same weight as juried publications.
I did find one faculty-judged jour
nal, in South Dakota, but it evidently
folded after only one issue. I men
tioned this to Shannon Stiles, for
merly of the CCC Library and now
with Distance Learning, and Jackie
Flowers, social science instructor,
and within a couple of weeks the
“Banyan Quarterly” was bom,”
nates a work, then that work is pub
lished.”
Clackamas President John Keyser
first suggested the name “Banyan”.
“Like the Banyan Tree, whose
branches grow into die ground to
become new trunks, the college is
continuously growing into a stron
ger, healthier organization through
the personal commitment and initia
tive of each student and staff mem
ber,” wrote Keyser.
The journal has been advertised
in die global market It is included in
a couple of scholarly journal indexes
and Stiles has sent e-mails to schol
ars at such targeted institutions as
the University of Oregon and Or
egon State University.
added Stiles.
How die work gets published is
fairly simple. The students write
their works in their classes. If the
teacher feels it has exceptional merit,
the teacher fills out a one-page sub
mission form and then it is published
in the next issue.
“We publish everything we are
sent, so each issue represents the
total of faculty submissions,” said
Stiles. “The faculty are experts in
their fields, and we are editors; we
would not presume to judge a work
not produced in our own classes.
Therefore, if a faculty member nomi-
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