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Aims & Scope

Goals

The Writing Waves aims to provide a meaningful outlet for the voice of the CSUMB student body. Here are some of our goals:

• Create a culture of recognizing the writing at CSUMB
• Maintain the authenticity of authors' voices in their writing by closely communicating and supporting minor editing of pieces for clarity.
• Provide an opportunity to make publishing more accessible to students schoolwide.
• Celebrate the many artistic endeavors of CSUMB.
• Showcase the writing, artwork, and mixed media of CSUMB's entire student body.
• Serve as a reference for students as they progress in their academic writing careers.
• Introduce a publishing and editing practicum to upper-division students.
• Building mentoring relationships between authors and editors.
• Have this journal serve as not only a journal, but as a textbook for college classes.
• Produce a textual artifact to mark progress and performance for writers throughout their academic careers.
• Showcase student-driven research, creative endeavors, and passions/interests/pursuits.
• Celebrate Writing Waves alumni by highlighting past editors' work during milestone years for the publication