We are excited to present here a series of essays on topics in the disciplines of Technical Communication, Writing/Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum, written by upper-level undergraduate students from across the United States. This batch of eight essays, selected after blind review by a panel of faculty members from these disciplines at universities across the country, comprise our first issue of Xchanges from the journal's new home at New Mexico Tech.

In reading these essays, you will see the various approaches these writers have adopted to present their original scholarship in these fields, approaches that range from undergraduate-thesis-length research studies to creative genre-transgressing analyses. We are proud to present this first issue from NMT. The essays that collectively constitute Issue 6.1 indicate the Xchanges journal's exciting new direction and the professional promise and research and writing excellence of these eight young scholars. Also, please click here to reader our CFPs for our graduate student issue, 6.2, and our next undergraduate issue, 7.2. Enjoy!


Section I: Creative and Critical Approaches in Composition and Rhetoric

"Perspectives on the Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities," by Melissa Bugdal

"Rhetorical Analysis of a Corporate Website: Philip Morris, Ethos, and Ethics," by Melanie Wilson

"Pedagogy Shaped by Ideology: Beneath or Beyond Plato," by Kacey Ross

"Excuse My Excess," by Lauren E. Tyrrell

Section II: Technical Communication: Practice and Analysis

"Analysis of Web Content Delivered to a Mobile Computing Environment," by Anthony Perreault

"The Benefits of Using Web Content Management Systems," by Gregory L. Koch II

"Socialization of the New Hire in the Workplace," by Linda Lambert

"Typeface and Document Persona in Magazines," by Nida Stewart

. . . An Interdisciplinary Technical Communication and Writing Journal from NMT

Xchanges is an interdisciplinary Technical Communication and Rhetoric/Writing journal that publishes two issues annually from its home at New Mexico Tech. The Fall/Winter issue features theses and major research projects written by undergraduate Technical Communication and Rhetoric/Writing students. The Spring/Summer issue is a themed international graduate student issue. Across all issues, the journal features new scholarship on various topics in the disciplines of Technical Communication/Writing, Compositions Studies, Rhetoric, and other interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary approaches to writing (WAC). If you have any comments or questions please contact the webmaster Julianne Newmark.