Enrique Murillo

The Cover Letter as a Publication Support Gap: Structural Disadvantage and AI-Assisted Preparation for Non-Native English Speakers

The manuscript cover letter is a consequential but understudied genre: it is the last document an author prepares before submission and often the first an editor reads. This article argues that, as an occluded genre, invisible in the scholarly record, its demands fall unevenly on non-native English speakers (NNES). Syn...