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Want to write for Erudition Online?
Disclaimer: These guidelines are subject to change at any time, and are not set in stone. If you feel that you can convince us to relax them in your case, give it a shot... but don't expect to succeed.
How to be considered
- Read these guidelines.
- Send a proposal to us via e-mail, explaining the topic you would write about. If you happen to have a completed draft, we'll be happy to read it along with your proposal - but don't assume that we'll be publishing it.
- Once we've received your article, we might ask you to make additional changes. More likely, our reply will include the launch date of the article and a request for profile information. If we accept your submission without providing a launch date, you can assume that your article is a second choice being kept "in reserve" in case our first choice is unable to meet deadline.
Audience
Erudition Online Magazine is a monthly online publication focusing those who have and want more knowledge, for underneath wisdom resides adequate knowledge. We have a community within Arts and Culture, Science and Technology and World Wide Web & Internet. The most visible portion of our readership is (naturally) our target audience, and we keep striving to reach out to people all over the world, thus becoming an International Ezine for masses, their teachers, scholars, Web enthusiasts, Tech savvy parents and everyone who has a thirst for knowledge, ever growing in him. Furthermore, a significant portion of our audience is located outside of Pakistan as well because even if we aim primarily for Pakistani audience located within or outside Pakistan, we get not only authorship from outside this community, an ever growing community irrespective of their nationality, religion is seeking our content as well.
Content overview
Each issue of the e-zine contains the following content, which may be subject:
- Articles/Columns/Interactivities as the content requires
- Interviews
- Portfolios (in Arts, WWW sections)
- Code Lab (in WWW section)
- Science Lab (An interactive display of any Scientific or Technological progress, theory or process)
- Case Studies (a column about the real-world implementation of web, graphic or other interactive technologies by individuals or companies)
General guidelines for submission
We would love to consider your article or piece of art if you kindly understand and comply with following few guidelines as of this writing.
- Introduction: A brief summary of the article, and the points made therein
- Body: Point-by-point discussion of the topic or topics addressed by the article
- Conclusion: A brief discussion of questions that need to be answered by the reader, and predictions that might be called for as a result of the points made in the body of the article
- Citations and endnotes In some cases, it might be advisable for you to provide anecdotes or other information that is meaningful but will complicate the clarity of your submission if it is included in the body of the article. In such a case, you should provide a numbered endnote.
- If your article contains links, or meaningful opportunities to include links, verified URL's should be included at the end of the article. For an example of usage, consult the end of any chapter in the Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide (http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual).
- File formats: The preferred submission format for articles is Microsoft Word format, as created by a Microsoft-branded application. In the event that you are unable to meet this preference, you may consider sending us Rich Text Format (rtf) which is supported by Word pad or like. If nothing else, send us in notepad format (txt).
- We will accept articles in the body of an email, or in snail mail the address of which shall be provided in Contact Us page.
- Images: Images submitted to support a written article should be created with due attention to optimization. If possible, the bandwidth load (copy plus all of your provided graphics) for your article should be kept to less than 60K.
Rights and compensation
At this time, Erudition Online e-zine is being financed almost entirely out of the editor's pocket, with donations of resources or cash gratefully accepted.
For this reason, we cannot actually pay in currency for the articles that we publish on our Web site. We can guarantee, however, that your work will be seen by a lot of people. It will probably receive a lot of positive attention as a result of running in Erudition Online e-zine... and the same can be said for the article's author.
We, therefore, don't hold any copyrights to ourselves rather than they remain to the author including all the images and citations included in the article or other work, Erudition Online does not take any responsibility of mis-reporting, theft of content, re-distribution of the data from our site to any other. However, we would always ask permission to re-publish the content in any other form, in case the need arises.
Your profile
In the event that your article, interview or work is accepted, we will also need information for your profile.
Profiles are intended to contain the following information:
- Given name and surname (identical to the credit given in the article)
- Birthplace
- Current location of residence
- Your contact info which includes (not everything) mailing address, email and (or) phone (cell phone is OK too)
- Short Academic & Professional history
- Job Title
- URL of personal and/or portfolio site
- A good quote which can be attributed to you
- Previously published works
- Your recent photograph or any other image (of your own created) to be displayed in place of your photograph. The image can only be in .jpg or .gif format and must never exceed beyond 15K in size. For examples of what we need here, visit our Profiles section. Facetiousness and humor are permitted in a profile, within reason.
- If for the sake of privacy you'd like to omit some of this information, let us know what you'd like to see published as a replacement.