Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies (WRDS) Databases

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.

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 is a refereed international journal providing a forum for ideas, research and practice on the assessment of written language.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CompPile allows ready reference to the published scholarship in post-secondary composition and rhetoric from 1939 to the present.

Devoted to exploring the use of computers in writing classes, writing programs, and writing research.

A journal of rhetoric, writing, and composition published by the Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.

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.

A refereed journal devoted to contemporary theories of rhetoric, writing, and culture.

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).

A forum for scholars interested in theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary study of rhetoric, culture, and politics.

Covers the latest communication practices, problems and trends in both business and academic settings or sectors.

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.

An online peer-reviewed international academic journal exploring the complex relationship between literacy and technology in educational, workplace, public, and individual spheres.

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.

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.

Peer-reviewed journal focused on assessment-related topics such as grading and response, program assessment, historical perspectives on assessment, assessment theory, and educational measurement.

Offers art and design institutions an arena in which to explore and develop the notion of thinking through writing as a parallel to visual discourse in art and design practice.

A refereed open-access online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.

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.

A refereed open access online journal that sponsors scholarly activity at the nexus of Literacy and Composition Studies.

Journal produced by Duke University Press.

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.”

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.

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.

A peer-reviewed, blind-refereed, online journal dedicated to exploring contemporary social, cultural, political and economic issues through a rhetorical lens.

Publishes articles related to programmatic issues related to technical communication.

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.

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.

A scholarly interdisciplinary journal of rhetoric, publishing in all areas of rhetoric and writing.

Publishes article-length manuscripts on all areas of rhetorical studies, including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy.

Features writing and research by students in first-year composition courses at the University of Central Florida.

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.

Includes both quantitative and qualitative research while showcasing the work of some of the field’s most noteworthy writers.

Publishes research focused on technical communication in academic, scientific, technical, business, governmental, and related organizational or social contexts.

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 Clearinghouse publishes articles and books of interest to both the writing-across-the-curriculum community and the larger writing studies community, provides a wide range of web-based resources for instructors who wish to use writing in their courses, and supports research in the use of writing to support learning and teaching.

The WAC Clearinghouse Writing Resources include a variety of resources to support WAC program development and operation and to support writing instruction and the use of writing in disciplinary courses.

A national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University, Parlor Press, and the WAC Clearinghouse.

A forum for exchanging ideas and information about writing centers in high schools, colleges, and universities.

Publishes empirical and theoretical research on issues in writing program administration.

The official journal of the International Writing Centers Association, an Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.

A networked journal and digital community for writers and teachers of writing.

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.

A broad, interdisciplinary journal for research on the study of writing in all its symbolic forms.

Publishes research articles written by undergraduates on topics related to rhetoric and writing.