Technical and Professional Writing Research Resources

• • Across the Disciplines (ATD)

  • Advances in the History of Rhetoric (AHR)

  • Argumentation & Advocacy 

  • Assessing Writing

  • Basic Writing e-Journal

  • College Composition and Communication (CCC)

  • College English (CE)

  • Community Literacy Journal

  • Composition Studies (CS)

  • Composition Forum (CF)

  • Computers and Composition

  • Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space

  • Currents in Teaching and Learning

  • Currents in Electronic Literacy (1999-2015)

  • Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing

  • enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture 

  • Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

  • Hybrid Pedagogy

  • KB Journal: A Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society

  • Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC)

  • Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (JAEPL)

  • Journal of Basic Writing

  • Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

  • Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics

  • Journal of Second Language Writing

  • Journal of the Teaching of Writing

  • Journal of Writing Analytics

  • Journal of Writing Assessment (JWA)

  • Jump+: The Journal of Undergraduate Multimedia Projects

  • Latinx Writing and Rhetorical Studies

  • Literacy in Composition Studies

  • Pedagogy 

  • The Peer Review

  • Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars  in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

  • Philosophy & Rhetoric

  • Poroi: A Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention

  • Praxis: A Writing Center Journal

  • Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society

  • PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory (You'll need to ILL this)

  • Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments

  • Reflections: A Journal of Public Service, Civic Writing, and Service Learning

  • Relevant Rhetoric

  • Research in Online Literacy Education (GSOLE)

  • Research in the Teaching of Writing

  • Rhetor (from the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric)

  • Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

  • Rhetoric Review (RR)

  • Rhetoric Society Quarterly (RSQ)

  • Rhetoric & Public Affairs (RPA)

  • Rhizomes

  • Quarterly Journal of Speech

  • Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal

  • Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC)

  • Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

  • technoculture: an online journal of technology in society

  • The WAC Journal

  • Western Journal of Communication

  • WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship 

  • Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor

  • The Writing Center Journal

  • The Writing Instructor

  • Writing on the Edge (WOE)

  • Written Communication 

• • Communication Design Quarterly Review

  • Convergence

  • IEEE Professional Communication

  • Intercom (Society for Technical Communication's magazine)

  • Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

  • Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

  • Journal of Usability Studies

  • Journal of Visual Culture

  • Programmatic Perspectives

  • Technical Communication

  • Technical Communication Quarterly

  • Xchanges 

• • Business and Professional Communication Quarterly (2010-present)

    • Journal of Business Communication (1973-2010)

  • Case Studies in Strategic Communication

  • International Journal of Business Communication

  • International Journal of Strategic Communication

  • Journal of Advertising

  • Journal of Business and Technical Communication

  • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

  • Management Communication Quarterly

  • Women's Studies in Communication

  • Written Communication 

• • Association of Medical Writers Journal 

  • IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

  • Journal of Professional Communication/Revue de Communication Professionnelle

  • Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

  • Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

• • Communication Design

  • Design Issues

  • The Design Journal

  • Design Studies

  • Human-Computer Interaction

  • Information Design Journal

  • Interacting with Computers

  • International Journal of Design

  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

  • International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

  • Journal of Design History

  • Journal of Usability Studies

  • Journal of Visual Literacy

  • Quality and User Experience

  • Textshop Experiments

  • User Experience (non-peer reviewed--Magazine of the User Experience Professionals Association)

  • Visual Communication

• • American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR)

  • Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL)

  • Association of Business Communication

  • Association of Teachers of Technical Writing

  • Association for Writing Across the Curriculum

  • Computers and Writing

  • Conference on College Composition and Communication

  • Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)

  • Council of Writing Program Administrators (link down)

  • Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)

  • IEEE Professional Communication Society

  • National Association of Science Writers

  • National Council of Teachers of English

  • Rhetoric Society of America

  • Society for Technical Communication

Online resources

• • WAC Clearinghouse

  • Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR)

  • University of Pittsburgh Digital Library

  • John Duffy's "The Value of FYC" (Inside Higher Ed)

  • CCC in Motion: Twenty Terms over Twenty Years (Derek Mueller)

  • CompPile

  • CompFAQs

  • Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

  • Digital Media and Composition Institute

  • McSweeney's "A Generic College Paper"

  • Teaching Text Rhetorically

  • Steve Krause's blog 

  • Disability Rhetoric

Academic Jobs in Writing Studies

• • Rhet Map (tracks open positions in rhetoric & composition, technical communications, etc.)

Writing Studies PhD Programs Map

• • Doctoral Programs Map