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标题：Coda: Editorial Remarks
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作者：Deniz Bozkurt
期刊名称：Aspeers : Emerging Voices in American Studies
电子版ISSN：1865-8768
出版年度：2015
卷号：8
页码：135-138
语种：English
出版社：American Studies Leipzig
摘要：W hen you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest” (King 201). Stephen King’s metaphor for the writing process might as well illustrate the experience of editing. In our first semester in the American Studies MA program at Leipzig University, we were assigned the challenging and immensely enriching task of preparing the eighth issue of aspeers for publication. The double-blind review process involved a substantial amount of (re-)reading, analyzing arguments, discussing strengths and overall academic value of each submission, weighing its potential contribution to the final issue, selecting, writing back to authors, and editing their resubmissions. All this work cultivated a set of valuable skills for the editors’ academic lives; for the authors, it provided an opportunity to have their articles critically examined, receive constructive peer feedback, and finally see their work published in a journal of increasing reputation and international reach. Following an intense period of almost “day after day scanning and identifying” the roots and core ideas of this year’s contributions as well as pruning sentences for more fruitful results, we now “step back” to look at the diversity of perspectives offered in the present edition and to explore some of those areas where our papers intersect and where they speak to each other.