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Share Your Perspective

Mays Business School faculty, staff and current and former students are invited to share personal essays with Mays Business Online readers. These articles may be serious or light, but above all they should tell a captivating, personal story.

What We Want

We're looking for compelling stories that give our readers a glimpse of an experience they might not otherwise hear about. These may, or may not, be business or career related.

The best essays are:

* Personal and universal: They reveal something about the writer, while evoking a universal insight or feeling that readers can identify with (i.e., success, failure, joy, sorrow, etc.).

* Focused: In your essay, don't try to cover multiple ideas or parts of an experience. Instead, zero in on one thought, one incident and one piece of one experience. Then explore it in rich detail.

What We Don't Want

We're not looking for opinion pieces. "Perspectives" is not a soapbox, nor a forum for editorial or political commentary that would be found in a newspaper's Op Ed section.

We're not looking for advice or how-to articles. And we're not looking for essays that respond to previous articles we've run in Mays Business Online or events/issues at Mays or Texas A&M. Sending a letter to the editor is a better place for that.

Your story should not be a rah-rah piece about Mays Business School or Texas A&M. In fact, it doesn't even have to mention A&M at all. This is about you and an experience that has shaped your life.

Length

The article should be no more than 800 words.

Editing

The editorial staff reserves the right to edit submitted articles for content, grammar and in-house style. Typically, the first round of editing addresses the piece's overall content and will be returned to the author for revision. After that, the article will be edited for grammar and in-house style. The writer will have the opportunity to review any changes before the piece publishes.

How to Submit

You can submit your finished essay by e-mail to chouston@mays.tamu.edu or by sending a hard copy to: Chrystal Houston, Editor, Mays Business Online, 4113 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4113.



Back to perspectives	Share Your Perspective Mays Business School faculty, staff and current and former students are invited to share personal essays with Mays Business Online readers. These articles may be serious or light, but above all they should tell a captivating, personal story. What We Want We're looking for compelling stories that give our readers a glimpse of an experience they might not otherwise hear about. These may, or may not, be business or career related. The best essays are: * Personal and universal: They reveal something about the writer, while evoking a universal insight or feeling that readers can identify with (i.e., success, failure, joy, sorrow, etc.). * Focused: In your essay, don't try to cover multiple ideas or parts of an experience. Instead, zero in on one thought, one incident and one piece of one experience. Then explore it in rich detail. What We Don't Want We're not looking for opinion pieces. "Perspectives" is not a soapbox, nor a forum for editorial or political commentary that would be found in a newspaper's Op Ed section. We're not looking for advice or how-to articles. And we're not looking for essays that respond to previous articles we've run in Mays Business Online or events/issues at Mays or Texas A&M. Sending a letter to the editor is a better place for that. Your story should not be a rah-rah piece about Mays Business School or Texas A&M. In fact, it doesn't even have to mention A&M at all. This is about you and an experience that has shaped your life. Length The article should be no more than 800 words. Editing The editorial staff reserves the right to edit submitted articles for content, grammar and in-house style. Typically, the first round of editing addresses the piece's overall content and will be returned to the author for revision. After that, the article will be edited for grammar and in-house style. The writer will have the opportunity to review any changes before the piece publishes. How to Submit You can submit your finished essay by e-mail to chouston@mays.tamu.edu or by sending a hard copy to: Chrystal Houston, Editor, Mays Business Online, 4113 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-4113.