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Guidelines for Fellowship ManuscriptsPlease submit to MCPSA Fellowship Program Managing Editor:
Details on manuscript:8 1/2 x 11 paper. More on the form of the document:Title page is to precede text and include: title of manuscript, author’s name, school, and "Massachusetts Charter Public School Fellowship Program (year)" all centered. A brief bio (a few sentences) may follow the text (and precede Reference page and Appendices) under the heading, "About the Author." Notes and and References are to appear on separate pages at the end of the paper, not as footnotes at the bottom of a page. Keep notes to a minimum; most important information should be presented in the text of the document. Consult a standard manual of style when preparing the manuscript. Many in the field of education require the form outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, latest edition (www.apastyle.org/). At MCPSA we utilize Chicago Manual of Style (www.press.uchicago.edu/). Use APA style for paper, including citations (in text citations, for example, rather than numbered footnotes). Regarding visuals, charts, graphs, etc:Limit these in number. Pictures, charts, graphs, etc. are often best included in Appendices. These should be labeled separately (ABCD, etc), referred to in the paper, and included at the end of the paper. Use a visual format supported by Word: BMP or TIFF at 300 dpi. For visuals to be included on the Web site they must also be Web ready: JPEG or GIF, 72 dpi, no larger than 300 pixels wide by 430 pixels high, preferably smaller, download size of 40 K (as design is geared for use with a 28.8 modem at 640 by 480 resolution). All images must be copyright free or used with permission of the artist. This includes images taken from the Web. Images with text, such as scanned papers, will not be legible on the web site. If essential, please word-process such text. Some suggestions on writing:Whenever possible, use an active voice; write as if you are talking to others. Avoid unnecessary use of jargon; use inclusive language, and define terms. Write in a simple, clear, straightforward manner. Often your readers don’t have a lot of time; they simply want to get at a best practice--so be concise and to the point. See the MCPSA Fellowship Program Call for Proposals for guiding questions. Finally, if possible, have a colleague read your work, reading as if he/she wanted to use your best practice; get the input, and make revisions before sending the paper off. Regarding the editing process:The Managing Editor of the Massachusetts Charter School Fellowship Program will edit the papers of fellowship recipients. The Editor's task is to make the author's document available, in the fullest sense of the term, to the reader: teachers and/or administrators in charter, public, and other schools. The author of a Fellowship paper has a specific area of expertise, a practice valuable to share with others. The Editor will work to assure that the author's work is easily understood, so the practice might be replicated. When author and editor work together, readers--and ultimately students, schools, and communities--benefit. In the interest of clarity, and to pursue the goals of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, the Editor may ask an author to supply additional information. She may also ask an author to rewrite a paragraph or a section of a paper. She may condense, delete, or rearrange information. She may make changes in style, insert transitions, add or change sub-titles. She will proof read. It is not the Editor's intent to change an author's meaning; her task is to correct errors and make the writer's wonderful ideas and practices "speak" to the reader. The editing process may take up to five months. In the end, the Editor will share any substantive changes with the author, so the author can give final approval before his/her document is posted on the Web. |
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