Article Submission Guidelines

1. Thematic focus

The overall theme for Koodoos is college admissions and college life, broadly defined. Our website is interested in accepting articles about:

  • Applying to College

  • Paying for College

  • Personal Statements and Statements of Purpose

  • Graduate School, Law School, and Medical School

  • International Student Admissions

  • Narrative Writing

  • College Life

  • Campus Culture

2. How to submit your blog piece.

All submissions to Koodoos should be made electronically, in MS Word or Google Docs (no PDFs), e-mailed as an attachment to contact@koodooslearning.com. Your e-mail should be clearly marked with the words ‘Blog entry’ in the title. Please send an accompanying image with your text, if possible. Images are not to be inserted into the text but are to be sent as a separate attachment. If the image is from the internet then please send a link as well. Please read the Images section below for important copyright information. A brief author’s biography of no more than three sentences is also required. If you would like to consult about topic selection or propose a specific topic, you can forward your questions or suggestions to the editorial team at the email above. Though, please note, that we do not require a topic to be pro-approved and we accept submissions on a rolling basis.

Your article will be reviewed and published based on writing quality and adherence to thematic priorities.

 3. Ethics

Accuracy

Contributors are responsible for the factual accuracy of their work.

Plagiarism

Unattributed use of other people’s work is unacceptable and harmful not only to the author but also to the reputation of the blog. Responsibility for any plagiarism will rest with the author.

Comments

Comments and replies will be moderated. However, feel free to report any offensive or unwarranted behavior.

Rights

All text published on Koodoos’s website will be under a Creative Commons license, whereby work can be quoted or reproduced elsewhere as long as it is properly attributed and linked back to Koodoos, and as long as it is not reproduced for commercial use. (For details on CC licensing, see brief summary and Legal Code.). Unless otherwise informed, we assume that submitted articles are offered for exclusive publication in Koodoos and that no piece accepted for publication will be published elsewhere simultaneously in any form without our knowledge. 

4. Conventions

Size

Blog posts should be between 500 and 1,500 words in length. In general, most articles should aim to be between 700 and 1,00 words. Articles over 1,500 words will not be accepted without prior consultation with the editing team and must be outstanding work.

Information to be submitted with your text

  • Title of the article, set in bold.

  • Your name directly below the title.

  • A brief writer’s profile

  • A link to your Twitter or social media profile (optional)

  • Two or three keywords.

  • A caption for your image.

  • Up to three links to personal or promoted websites.

  • The source of your image and any copyright information in brackets.

These should be separated from the text by two carriage returns.

Images

Contributors are strongly encouraged to provide one or more illustrations for their posts. These may be photographs, graphics, or cartoons. Pictures can be in gif, png, jpg, or jpeg format. Please note, that the editorial team reserves the right to curate which images are, or are not, included on our website.

Additionally, it is also essential that we have permission to publish the image, either through a Creative Commons license or through explicit written permission from the copyright owner. Please provide a link to the source of the image if the image is from the internet, with evidence of its free-to-use status.