Guides: Writing Studies: Journals

Journals

Across the disciplines : interdisciplinary perspectives on language, learning, and academic writing
Across the Disciplines, a refereed journal devoted to language, learning, and academic writing, publishes articles relevant to writing and writing pedagogy in all their intellectual, political, social, and technological complexity.
Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Annual research publication of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, publishing scholarship on all historical aspects of rhetoric, in all historical periods, and with reference to all intellectual, national, and cultural communities.
Assessing Writing
Assessing Writing is a refereed international journal providing a forum for ideas, research and practice on the assessment of written language.
Basic Writing e-Journal
Publishes scholarship on teaching and learning in various basic writing contexts. Frequent topics: curriculum, instructional practice, teacher preparation, program evaluation, and student learning.
College Composition and Communication (CCC Online)
College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching writing and that reflects the most current scholarship and theory in the field.
College English
Publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related to the teaching of English.
Community Literacy Journal
Publishes both scholarly work that contributes to the field’s emerging methodologies and research agendas and work by literacy workers, practitioners, and community literacy program staff.
Composition Forum : A Journal of the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
A journal for scholars and teachers interested in the investigation of composition theory and its relation to the teaching of writing at the post-secondary level.
Composition Studies: Freshman English News
An academic journal dedicated to the range of professional practices associated with rhetoric and composition: teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing related programs; preparing the field's future teacher-scholars.
Computers and Composition: An International Journal For Teachers of Writing
Devoted to exploring the use of computers in writing classes, writing programs, and writing research.
Currents in Electronic Literacy
A journal of rhetoric, writing, and composition published by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
Disability Studies Quarterly: DSQ
Journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities.
Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture
A refereed journal devoted to contemporary theories of rhetoric, writing, and culture.
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
A digital magazine dedicated to prompting conversations about rhetoric in everyday life among diverse publics. (latest issue = 2016)
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
A peer-reviewed journal devoted to applied research on professional communication--including but not limited to technical and business communication. It has been published since 1957 by the Professional Communication Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory
A forum for scholars interested in theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary study of rhetoric, culture, and politics.
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Covers the latest communication practices, problems and trends in both business and academic settings or sectors.
Journal of English for Academic Purposes
JEAP publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges in the linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic description of English as it occurs in the contexts of academic study and scholarly exchange itself.
Journal of Literacy and Technology
An online peer-reviewed international academic journal exploring the complex relationship between literacy and technology in educational, workplace, public, and individual spheres.
Journal of Second Language Writing
Devoted to publishing theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions that represent a contribution to current understandings of central issues in second and foreign language writing and writing instruction.
Journal of Teaching Writing
Publishes articles of interest to teachers at all grade levels, from preschool through university, that address the practices and theories which bear on our knowledge of how people learn and communicate through writing.
Journal of Writing Assessment
Peer-reviewed journal focused on assessment-related topics such as grading and response, program assessment, historical perspectives on assessment, assessment theory, and educational measurement.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
A refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
KB Journal: The journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
Publishes original scholarship that addresses, applies, extends, repurposes, or challenges the writings of Kenneth Burke, which include but are not limited to the major books and hundreds of articles by Burke, as well as the growing corpus of research material about Burke.
Literacy in Composition Studies
A refereed open access online journal that sponsors scholarly activity at the nexus of Literacy and Composition Studies.
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture
Journal produced by Duke University Press available through Project Muse
Peitho Journal
A peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. The journal exists to support the Coalition’s mission as a “learned society composed of women scholars who are committed to research in the history of rhetoric and composition.”
Philosophy and Rhetoric
Topics include the connections between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation, philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric among historical figures and during historical periods, philosophical analyses of the relation to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, and psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis.
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal
Welcomes articles from writing-center consultants, administrators, and others concerned with issues related to writing-center training, consulting, labor, administration, and initiatives. Published biannually by the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
A peer-reviewed, blind-refereed, online journal dedicated to exploring contemporary social, cultural, political and economic issues through a rhetorical lens.
Programmatic Perspectives: Journal of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
Publishes articles related to programmatic issues related to technical communication.
Research in the Teaching of English
Research journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in the United States. It is a broad-based, multidisciplinary journal composed of original research articles and short scholarly essays on a wide range of topics significant to those concerned with the teaching and learning of languages and literacies around the world, both in and beyond schools and universities.
Rhetorica
Published quarterly for the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Rhetorica includes articles, book reviews, and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion, and law.
Rhetoric Review
A scholarly interdisciplinary journal of rhetoric, publishing in all areas of rhetoric and writing.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Publishes article-length manuscripts on all areas of rhetorical studies, including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy.
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
The journal of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), published for instructors of English in two-year colleges as well as for teachers of first- and second-year composition in four-year institutions.
Technical Communication
Includes both quantitative and qualitative research while showcasing the work of some of the field’s most noteworthy writers.
Technical Communication Quarterly
Publishes research focused on technical communication in academic, scientific, technical, business, governmental, and related organizational or social contexts.
Technoculture: An online journal of technology in society
An independent annual peer-reviewed journal. Publishing both critical and creative works that explore the ways in which technology impacts this (or any) society, with a broad definition of technology, Technoculture is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
The WAC Journal
A national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University, Parlor Press, and the WAC Clearinghouse.
WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship
A forum for exchanging ideas and information about writing centers in high schools, colleges, and universities.
WPA: Writing Program Administration
Publishes empirical and theoretical research on issues in writing program administration.
Writing Center Journal
The official journal of the International Writing Centers Association, an Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.
The Writing Instructor
A networked journal and digital community for writers and teachers of writing.
Writing on the Edge
Writing on the Edge, an interdisciplinary journal focusing on writing and the teaching of writing, is aimed primarily at college-level composition teachers and others interested in writing and writing instruction. It is published at the University of California at Davis and appears two times a year-in spring and fall.
Written Communication
A broad, interdisciplinary journal for research on the study of writing in all its symbolic forms.

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