Article Submission

Members

All members are eligible and encouraged to write articles for The Triple Helix. We will publish as many articles written by active members as our page limit allows. Selected articles will go through an editorial process prior to publication. Writers who are members are required to attend all meetings involving the writing and editorial process.

• Writers may choose to write a topic of their choice (approved by the literary editor) or may select from a list of suggested topics.
• Writers submit article on approved topic of choice.
• Editorial staff will edit articles and work on revisions with writers.
• Final articles will be submitted to production staff for layout and publication
• Distribution of journals across campus

Article Guidelines

• Should be typewritten (MS Word preferred) in 12-point font, Times New Roman, single-spaced.
• Writers may choose to write a standard article, a brief article or a debate article.
• Standard articles are published at MIT and have a maximum word count of 1200 words. Writers who write standard articles can indicate interest for promotion of their article to NATIONAL FEATURE articles.
• National Feature articles are 2000 words long and published in all editions of the Triple helix across the nation. One national feature will be chosen as our national cover article. Writers cannot choose to write the Feature. Promotion to feature from standard will be made after consent of the writer and the executive editor in chief.
• Brief articles are 750 words long and published at MIT. Brief articles are not considered for promotion to national feature
• Each side of the debate article is 750 words long and written on a topic chosen by the managing editor.
• Debate articles are not considered for promotion to national feature
• Some articles will be published on the web as decided by the editorial board. These articles will only be referenced in a special table of contents in all print editions of the Triple Helix.
• Please DO NOT exceed or fall below your word limit by 100 words or more.
• Please include your name, year, and/or a 1-2 sentence description about yourself.
• Images related to your article and article titles are strongly encouraged but not required.

Sample Article Topics

• Patents
• Litigation battles between companies
• Importance of patens to corporate success
• Patent Race
• Rise of Biotech industry
• Impaacts/Description of Healthcare policy
• Bush
• Congressman, governors
• Universal health care
• HMOs/doctors/malpractice and tort cases
• Research
• Impact of specific MIT research on society
• Impact of other noteworthy research in the nation
• Description of major corporate/government/academic research
• Healthcare/confidentiality - ethics and legal issues
• Use of genetics/foresnics in criminal justice
• Legal/political/societal/ethical issues for major research/diseases
• SARS, mad cow
• Stem cell research (Reagan's son, etc)
• Cloning
• Euthanasia
• Low-car, atkins - effects on society, economy, marketing, etc
• FDA drug approval process
• Medical malpractice - legal/economic/society
• Environmental policy - political and social issues, ethics
• Media perception of science and technology
• Human Genome, genetics
• Achievement gap in scientific education - political, social, racial
• Telecommunications - impact on business, privacy, laws
• Internet - privacy, laws, societal changes, business
• Electric vehicles - hybrids - environmental, political, economic
• Computers - historical analysis
• Diseases - treatments, societal impacts, politics, laws
• ADD - normalizing?
• Depression - real or marketing gimick