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Aims & Scope

Goals

When we created Writing Waves, we wanted it to be different than the normal academic journal. 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
• Celebrate the writing and writers of CSUMB's first-year composition classes
• 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