Our Mission

Our foremost concern is to have a space where academics associated with PCA can present their research to a wider, academically-minded, audience.

That endeavor, publishing on Asterisk and Anomalies, grants academics another line item for the many and varied lists of accomplishments that they must complete along their career paths.

Our Process

To that end, we do not have a peer-review process; rather, our stipulation for articles on Asterisks and Anomalies is that the researcher has been accepted to or has presented at the national PCA conference or at one of the regional PCA conferences. We rely on the many area chairs of PCA to be the judicious eye of the material we present.

Our editorial process is less to hone the academics of the work provided (as those have been pre-approved by PCA) and more to ensure the articles are written in a voice that allows entrance of an array of disciplines outside of the researcher's central field of study.

As our maximum word length is only 2,000 words, these articles are more akin to treatments or abridgments than to full research papers or to full PCA presentations. As a gloss, these articles aim to excite readers and encite them to follow links to broader discussions of the subject. Often, links are provided leading the reader to the published work from which the author formed their Asterisks & Anomalies article.

We envision ourselves and the role of Asterisks & Anomalies as being a helpful part of the germination process of research, rather than as completed research, which is bound and readied for others to use as support of their work.

Ourselves

You can learn more about the Staff and Board members of the non-profit Asterisks & Anomalies.

Our loci

While Asterisks & Anomalies has no offical connection to Eastern Florida State College, most of us has some connection to EFSC, as students, as staff, as alumni, as adjunct instructors, as professors.