Guidelines for Writers

The Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) helps educators at all levels (elementary through college) find multimedia resources for learning and teaching about Asia in order to enhance students' understandings of Asian cultures and peoples. News and Reviews is a free newsletter for educators that is published three times a year and includes review articles on recent Asia-related films and other multi-media resources, as well as essays on teaching about Asia using multimedia technology. The newsletter has a subscription circulation of about 4000 educators and administrators and is also distributed at conferences, workshops, and other events.

Articles submitted to News and Reviews should provide a basic overview of the materials under review and speak specifically to the ways in which these materials may be used in a classroom environment to teach about Asia. Authors are encouraged to assess the suitability of the materials for different age groups. Articles should be approximately 400-800 words in length. Upon submission, the editor will work in consultation with the author in order to ensure that the review meets the needs of the newsletter and its readers. Since the primary aim of our publication is to recommend useful resources to teachers, AEMS is unlikely to publish an overall negative review, but we do invite constructive criticism from our reviewers where appropriate.

Articles may be published in the print newsletter, on the AEMS website, or, in some caes, in the journal Education About Asia (EAA), thanks to an agreement between that journal's editors and AEMS. With the exception of those published in EAA, all published articles will be made available indefinitely on the AEMS website. AEMS retains world rights to the articles. Since our goal is to disseminate this information as widely as possible, we reserve the right to allow others to republish them.

While the majority of AEMS articles are solicited by the editor, we also welcome unsolicited submissions for reviews and pedagogical essays. Please e-mail the editor with an informal query for approval before submitted an unsolicited manuscript.

Please submit your manuscript as an MS Word attachment to Tanya Lee (tanyalee @ uiuc.edu). Please include a short bio. Manuscripts should be received by the assigned deadline.