Journals

The Writing Center Journal (WCJ) The Writing Center Journal was launched in 1980 by Lil Brannon and Steven North and remains the primary research journal in the field of writing centers. WCJ is the official journal of the International Writing Centers Association, an Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English. WCJ is published twice a year: fall/winter and spring/summer.

The Peer Review The Peer Review is a fully online, open-access, multimodal scholarly journal that promotes the work of emerging writing center researchers. In particular, we target graduate/undergraduate/high school researchers. While we welcome Writing Center directors and administrators as co-authors, the journal’s overall purpose is to forward the work of new voices in the field. 

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship Across five issues per year and through numerous online resources, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship promotes exchanges on challenges in tutoring theory and methodology, handling ESL issues, directing a writing center, training tutors, designing and expanding centers, and using tutorial theory and pedagogy.

The Dangling Modifier An international newsletter by and for peer tutors in writing and produced in association with the NCPTW.

Southern Discourse in the Center: A Journal of Multiliteracies and Innovation Southern Discourse began as the newsletter of the Southeastern Writing Center Association. Christine Cozzens revived the Southern Discourse newsletter in the spring of 1998, and in 2001 the SWCA board decided to designate SDC as the "publication" of SWCA after it began to include research articles, and in-depth works about writing center related issues. 

Research in Online Literacy Education Research in Online Literacy Education (ROLE) is a peer-reviewed digital journal published by the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators. ROLE publishes original research and scholarship in literacy-based online education.

Online Literacies Open Resource The Online Literacies Open Resource (OLOR) is one of two publication venues sponsored by the Global Society for Online Literacy Educators.  The goal of the OLOR is to publish relatively brief and practical pedagogical strategies. 

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal Praxis: A Writing Center Journal has been published by the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin since Fall 2003.