Welcome to Issue 6.1 of Xchanges!

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.