Please accept my apologies for cross-postings _______________________________________ Dear Colleague, Following on from its inaugural issue on the field of international professional communication, and the forthcoming issue on international engineering communication, *connexions • international professional communication journal* invites you to continue the conversations on IPC by contributing to Issue 2(1). The journal welcomes *papers that explore* the *practice, research, pedagogy, methodology, and technology* of efficient and effective written, oral, visual, electronic and non-verbal professional communication in academic, business, crisis, development, environmental, health, media, nonprofit, political, research, science, technical and other work and civic activity contexts in local, national, international, and global work and civic activity settings. *Manuscripts *of - original *research articles* of 5,000 to 7,000 words of body text, - *review articles* of 3,000 to 5,000 words of body text, - *focused commentary* and *industry perspectives* articles of 500 to 3,000 words of body text, - *teaching cases* of 3,000 to 5,000 words of body text. *Submission procedures* - Submit - cover page containing your name, institutional affiliation, and email address); - complete research article, review article, focused commentary or industry perspective article, or teaching case. - Prepare the cover page and manuscript on letter or A4 size pages, 1.5 line spacing, and Georgia 12-point font. - Save the cover page and manuscript in doc, docx, or rtf format. - Submit your proposal by email to the Editor at editor@connexionsjournal.org *Schedule* - Proposal deadline: September 30, 2013. - Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2013. - Date of publication: February 28, 2014. If you have any questions about your proposal, feel free to contact the Editor at editor@connexionsjournal.org Thank you for considering writing a paper for *connexions **• international professional communication journal* Rosário Durão Editor www.connexionsjournal.org connexions • international professional communication journal (ISSN 2325-6044) Department of Communication, Liberal Arts, and Social Sciences New Mexico Tech ****