Journals in Rhetoric and Composition

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

Across the Disciplines
Lots of resources, including journals and books. The primary emphasis is writing across the curriculum. Academic.Writing and Language and Learning Across the Disciplines merged in 2004 to create this journal. " Across the Disciplines provides CAC researchers, program designers, and teachers interested in using communication assignments and activities in their courses with a venue for scholarly debate about issues of disciplinarity and writing across the curriculum." 2.13.06

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
Composition Forum is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal of pedagogical theory in rhetoric and composition.

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

Computers and Composition: An International Journal
A refereed professional print journal devoted to exploring the use of computers in composition classes, programs, and scholarly projects. It provides teachers and scholars a forum for discussing issues connected to computer use.

Computers and Composition Online
A refereed online journal for scholar-teachers interested in the impact of new and emerging media upon the teaching of language and literacy in both virtual and face-to-face forums.

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.*

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.

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
A digital magazine and web forum dedicated to exploring rhetoric in everyday life. As the name suggests, Harlot is not another academic journal, nor is it a pop culture magazine. It's a combination of both and neither, and its goal is to provoke real conversations in the public sphere about how communication shapes our world -- from topics on reality television to public monuments to religion to pop music, and so on.

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.

J.A.C.: A Journal of Composition Theory (Formerly Journal of Advanced Composition)
Annotate online articles. Respond to archives. Authors' responses to reviewers. Abstracts of print articles.*

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 a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Each issue presents varied perspectives on special topics, such as "Critical Issues in Computers and Writing," "Technology and the Face of Language Arts in the K-12 Classroom," and "Hypertext Fiction/Hypertext Poetry."

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.*

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. (Erlbaum)

 

Technoculture (Coming 2009)
A journal for cultural studies of technology. The Letter from the Editors is available now.

Writing Center Journal
The official publication of the International Writing Centers Association, publishing since 1980. From the "Aim and Scope" page: "The Writing Center Journal's primary purpose is to publish articles, reviews, and announcements of interest to writing center personnel. We therefore invite manuscripts that explore issues or theories related to writing center dynamics or administration. We are especially interested in theoretical articles and in reports of research related to or conducted in writing centers. In addition to administrators and practitioners from college and university writing centers, we encourage directors of high school and middle school writing centers to submit manuscripts." The co-editors are Neal Lerner and Beth Boquet. 2.13.06

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. (Sage)

Other Sites of Interest

NCTE Assemblies
The NCTE Assemblies have evolved out of groups with similar interests wishing to affiliate in some way within the structure of the National Council of Teachers of English. Each of these assemblies has been authorized by the NCTE Executive Committee to serve the interests and purposes of persons who share special interests or who have jobs alike. Each offers a forum for discussing common interests through workshops, sessions, or exhibit booths at NCTE conventions, through newsletters and/or journals.

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.

* Indicates that editors of this journal are members of the Editors Group, an informal consortium of journal editors in Rhetoric and Composition.