Visual Argumentation

Visual argumentation (graphic articles, visualization-based argumentation with limited text)

Submissions should include:

• A reviewer packet with the following components:
  • A script for the proposed submission with in-script citations that meet the AHR's existing citation standards.
  • A plan for final-submission production that includes an optional rough cut of the submission in its native medium and a short 250-word description of remaining production needs and timelines.
  • Citations that meet the AHR's existing citation standards.
  • A plan for final-submission production that outlines:
    • How any interactive visual components will be presented to an audience (e.g. “the package will contain several components embedded in accompanying text-based narrative”, or “the package will be an entirely interactive visualization”) and what platform needs underlie those interactives (e.g. “the platform uses Javascript libraries, including React, to support user interaction”)
    • An example of the team’s ability to professionally produce content in the submission’s native medium (e.g. for authors submitting a data-journalism style interactive visualization, a web site or online article in which one or more members of the team was responsible for the production of a visual argument.) The example can be unrelated to the content of the AHR submission.
• A brief justification for the AHR editorial staff that aligns the submission’s contents with the general depth and labor requirements of an AHR text-based-article submission. This can be included in the submission cover letter.
• A 500-word sustainability plan that indicates how the data that supports the piece will be accessed by AHR readers in the long term (this might include zip files of data hosted by OUP or a plan for externally hosted appendices that outlines how those external assets will be sustained and migrated forward).