Re: Reply - CFE for 'classroom ready' essays, restricted to authors with PhDs

Moderator's Note:
Professor Enticknap brings up below an issue that was discussed by moderators. We also had questions about this wording.
Feel free to engage the issue, as suggested.

From: Leo Enticknap [[email protected]]

 I'm guessing that by 'classroom ready', the CFE means self-contained
essays that are suitable for undergraduates to read without needing to
read the rest of the book in order to get necessary and additional
background context.

However, I'm also intrigued as to the rationale for
restricting contributors to 'scholars with PhDs'. Surely the peer review
process is what determines whether an article is fit to print or not?
The only explanations I can guess are that the either is trying a cut
price way to circumvent the cost of a peer review process, or that the
publisher believes that including contributions from graduate students,
academics whose careers began before a PhD became a mandatory
requirement for an entry level academic post (not really that long ago,
in the humanities) and amateur scholars would have a negative effect on
sales figures. If so, this is in my view a short-sighted decision. Were
I editing a compilation of essays in any of my research specialisms,
excluding people in these categories would mean excluding some of the
leading voices in those specialisms, thus significantly weakening the
end result.

Leo Enticknap
Institute of Communications Studies,
University of
Leeds
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/people/leo-enticknap
http://leeds.academia.edu/enticknap
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