Welcome to TAPROOT
This is the first complete online version of Taproot, the interdisciplinary student and alumni journal of the Newark campus of The Ohio State University featuring the work of the fourth print volume. As always, it features student/alumni-created academic essays, fiction and creative non-fiction, photography, artwork, and poetry. This year it appears in a new, larger format in print and the online version features full-color art and multimedia submissions.
We hope you enjoy the following cross-section of texts within the journal, several of which have won university prizes. We invite Ohio State Newark students and alumni to submit their work from any class or creative endeavor for publication in Taproot. Send all text (in Word), art, or music/video work (digital only) to taprootproject@gmail.com. You many submit your work at any time before February 20, 2009; the next print and online volume will be released in spring.
The editorial board this year (The Collective) included Samantha Boring, Ashley Caggiano, Jonathan Holmes, Camille Knoderer, Dustin Oyler, David Pennington, Nick Powell, and Lee Waller. Special thanks go out to Dr. Elizabeth Weiser for her role as professor of record and faculty advisor. Next year, the Taproot saga will continue to evolve with a brand new set of students in the winter quarter class of English 662 Literary Publishing. Members of this class learn about the history and theory of print and digital publishing and then practice hands-on production from start to finish of volume five of Taproot. Upon successful completion of the course they can rightfully add “Editorial Associate” to their resume. For information, contact Dr. Weiser at weiser.23@osu.edu.
Thanks as well to the campus IT department, particularly Corri Edwards and Travis Patrick, for their invaluable help with this first issue of Taproot Online..
Taproot: it’s your journal. Enjoy it.
—The Board of Editors (a.k.a. The Collective)
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