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Journals in Rhetoric and Composition


Academic.Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum
Lots of resources. Primary emphasis is Writing Across the Curriculum.*

The ACE Journal
Abstracts from the Assembly on Computers in English's print journal.

Across the Disciplines
Supports scholarly exchange about the theory, research, and practice of writing across the curriculum, communication across the curriculum, and writing in the academy.

Assessing Writing
Welcomes submissions that address writing assessment issues from diverse perspectives: classroom research, institutional, professional, and administrative.*

Basic Writing e-journal
An electronic peer-reviewed journal designed to be an electronic forum to broaden conversations about Basic Writing.*

CCC Online
College Composition and Communication website. CCC Online has begun archiving abstracts of the major articles and features published in the print edition of CCC, beginning with Volume 49. Full-text versions of editorials, news, and Interchanges/Letters will be provided as well.*

College English
Full text of selected articles and reviews available online. TOCs of print issues.*

Composition Forum
TOCs for the print journal.

Composition Studies
TOCs only for current issues. Abstracts on all articles for back issues.

Computers and Composition (Online)
Selected online texts from the print journal.*

Currents in Electronic Literacy
Addresses the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in literature, rhetoric and composition, languages, communications, media studies, and education.*

CWRL
CWRL: The Electronic Journal for Computer Writing, Rhetoric and Literature publishes articles that address computer-aided pedagogy in the fields of Rhetoric, Composition and Literature.*

Enculturation
A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture.*

://English Matters
Invites teachers and students of English who are questioning and creating new texts and pedagogies on the web to submit essays, exhibits, and performances.

Inventio: "creative thinking about learning and teaching"
Features peer-reviewed articles on instructional research, instructional philosophy, pedagogy, learning theory, and other significant issues related to excellence in learning and teaching.

Issues in Writing
Issues in Writing is a semiannual, refereed journal devoted to the study of writing in science and technology, government, education, business and industry, the arts and humanities, and the professions.

JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdiscinplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, Literacy, and Politics
Annotate online articles. Respond to archives. Authors' responses to reviewers. Abstracts of print articles.*

Journal Business and Technical Writing
Examines the latest communication practices, problems, and trends in both business and academic settings or sectors, including written, oral, and electronic communication in all areas of business, science and government.

Journal of Second Language Writing
A refereed journal appearing four times a year, features theoretically grounded reports of research and discussion of central issues in second language and foreign language writing and writing instruction. TOCs and abstracts online.*

Journal of Teaching Writing
A journal devoted to the teaching of composition and the language arts.*

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
Kairos is an electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature.*

National Teaching and Learning Forum
The on-line edition--just like the printed version--offers subscribers the options to sign up for reading online or downloading material.

Philosophy and Rhetoric
Publishes articles on theoretical issues involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. Sample past texts available online.

PreText
All things PreText.*

PreText: Electra (Lite)
The e-journal.*

Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power
An online journal for contemporary issues surrounding rhetorical studies.

Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy
An interdisciplinary journal, Reader encourages submissions in areas such as literature, reading research, gender studies, rhetoric, composition, visual representation, and cultural studies. Web site currently contains TOCs for all issues but may in the future contain online texts from past issues.

Readerly/Writerly Texts
Essays on Literature, Literary/Textual Criticism, and Pedagogy. The journal publishes essays on critical theory, literary and textual criticism, editorial theory and practices, the interrelations between literature and the social sciences, rhetoric and composition, and related pedagogies. Some online issues. TOCs for print issues.*

Reflections
A peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for scholarship on community-based work in college writing courses and related issues. Some materials online.*

RhetNet
A cyberjournal for rhetoric and writing.

Rhetoric Review
Browse TOCs from past issues. Now an Erlbaum journal so look for a new site soon.*

Rhetorica
Published for the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Rhetorica's articles, book reviews and bibliographies examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion and law.

Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Abstracts online.*

Teaching English in the Two Year College
Scholarly journal specifically directed to those who teach English in two-year colleges or in the first two years at four-year colleges and universities. TOCs for print journal. Some editorials, letters, and news reports are posted full text.

Technical Communication Quarterly
A journal devoted to the teaching, study, and practice of technical writing in academic, scientific, technical, governmental, and business/industrial fields.

Writing Center Journal
Archives contain past issues in pdf form.

Writing on the Edge
An interdisciplinary journal focusing on writing and the teaching of writing aimed primarily at college-level composition teachers and others interested in writing and writing instruction. TOCs online.*

The Writing Instructor
A Digital Community and Networked, Refereed Journal.*

Writing Lab Newsletter
A forum for exchanging ideas and information about writing centers in colleges, universities, and high schools. Articles focus on challenges in directing a writing center, training tutors, adding computers, designing and expanding centers, and using tutorial theory and pedagogy.*

WPA: Writing Program Administration
WPA publishes articles and essays concerning the organization, administration, practices, and aims of college and university writing programs.*

Written Communication
Provides a forum for the free exchange of ideas, theoretical viewpoints and methodological approaches that better define and further develop thought and practice in the exciting study of the written word.

Other Sites of Interest:

Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ)
An organization of editors of learned journals devoted primarily but not exclusively to the study of language and literature and related humanistic disciplines.

Journal of Electronic Publishing
A REALLY interesting ejournal on publishing ejournals.

EJournal
An electronic journal concerned with the implications of electronic networks and texts.

JStor
"Redefining Access to Scholarly Literature."

Project Muse
Project Muse provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals.

* Editors participating on the list.

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