Submission Criteria

 Draft Submission Criteria for Publishing:

- Only Yeditepe English Literature BA Program students (majors and minors) may submit work.

- Essays can be creative-writing pieces, essays and research papers.

- Student authors must warrant that their sent piece is original and that all references have been made according to the MLA style guide.

- All submitted work must be in English and must be proofread and edited on Grammarly.com.

- All submissions are assessed by the editorial board (founding instructors and editors) and there is no guarantee that all submissions will be accepted for publishing in the blog.

- Students who submit work must be willing to work with editors for suggested modifications and corrections on their texts.

- Submissions will be assessed on a quarterly-posting basis (December, March, June). There will be no posting in the summer.


 You may contact us at englitessays@yeditepe.edu.tr for further information.

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