Clearing Magazine: Environmental and Place-based Education </script> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">  </SCRIPT> <style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body class="oneColFixCtr"> <div id="container"> <div id="mainContent"> <table width="913" height="96" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="4"> <tr> <th scope="col"><a href="indexDEFECTIVE.html"><img src="images/webbannerSHORT.jpg" width="888" height="147" border="0" /></a></th> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <h2>Submit an Article<img src="images/homeimage3.jpg" width="389" height="481" align="right" /></h2> <p><em>This is your chance to share your success story or perspective with the world.</em></p> <p><strong>CLEARING Magazine Writers' Guidelines</strong></p> <p><strong>Purpose</strong></p> <p>CLEARING is intended to help teachers, parents and other educators promote environmental and global awareness among young people from kindergarten through high school. Articles range from perspective pieces (e.g. the role of environmental education or global education in the curriculum) to practical classroom-ready activities. Most articles are written by teachers or other educators working in the field of environmental/global education, but we have also published several pieces by freelance writers and we welcome such contributions.</p> <p><strong>Remuneration</strong></p> <p>As a small non-profit publication, we are unable to offer payment to writers and reviewers. Writers of feature articles receive worldwide acclaim and supreme satisfaction as their reward.</p> <p><strong>Length</strong></p> <p>As a general rule, the length of the article will be determined by its content. One page in CLEARING is approximately 750 words. with photographs or illustrations, one page comes to about 575 words. We find that most readers simply do not have time to read very long articles, and thus a good target is approximately 1500 words. Maximum length should be 2500 words. Bvook reviews should range from 250 to 750 words.</p> <p><strong>Format</strong></p> <p>In order of preference:</p> <p>a. send your article by e-mail to editor@clearingmagazine.org. If possible, place the text of your article directly into the body of the e-mail message. If you must send the article as an attachment, please convert it to Microsoft Word format.<br /> b. send your article by regular mail, allowing lots of time for delivery.</p> <p><strong>Acceptance of Articles</strong></p> <p>We are a small magazine with an editorial/production/circulatyion staff of ONE. Therefore, we usually cannot respond immediately to articles sent unsolicited. However, if we think your article is one we might publish at a future date, we will try to contact you within a month from the time we receive it. If you have an idea for an article and would like to know whether or not we would be interested, please send an outline or summary of the proposed article (keep it to about one page in length).</p> <p>Our deadlines for submission of articles are as follows:<br /> <em>June 15:</em> Summer issue (publication in July)<br /> <em>August 15:</em> Fall issue )(publication in October)<br /> <em>December 15:</em> Winter issue (publication in January)<br /> <em>March 15:</em> Spring issue (publication in April)</p> <p><strong>Style and Approach</strong></p> <p>Style is an individual matter which we annot dictate, but some guidelines are in order. First bear in mind that CLEARING is not an academic journal and, as such, does not stand on formality. Let your own voice be heard in your writing, and don't hesitate to use humor and rhetorical flair. Since our readership extends across North America, try to avoid references to a particular region, province or state if they are not important to your article.<br /> If you are writing about a program or series of activities undertaken in your school, try to avoid the "diary" apporoach. Readers do not need (and likely do not want) to know every little thing that happened. For the most part, they are reading for ideas that they can use or build on in their own classrooms. While you may want or need to include an account of what happened when you tried a particular teaching unit or activity, your main purpose should be to inform readers of how they might best go about developing a similar program, unit or activity.<br /> If you are writing on a topic related to the environment or to other global issues, such as global warming or ozone depletion, your primary purpose should not be to inform readers about these issues but rather to provide ideas for teaching about these issues. Some background information is always useful, but most teachers have many other sources for such information. They look to CLEARING to find ways of conveying the complexity of these issues to students.<br /> Finally, please not that we try to avoid articles that promote the work of one organization. <br /> </p> <p><strong>Credits </strong></p> <p>Please add a sentence or so about yourself which we can add to the end of your article or review. 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