Written Communication
Written Communication
Since 1984, Written Communication has been a leading journal for empirical research on writing as both systems of inscriptions and activities of meaning-making across multiple modes and contexts. Written Communication sponsors a broad and interdisciplinary view of what writing is, how writing gets done, and what writing does in the world. Each issue of the journal encompasses a wide range of topics and its pages consistently provide readers with new research findings, new theoretical concepts, and new ways of understanding how writing is practiced. Written Communication welcomes studies of writing practices in and across pursuits, international borders, and cultures, and at all levels of scope.
Written Communication is an international journal that publishes methodological inquiry and empirical research on writing from multiple theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including literacy studies, semiotics, anthropology, education, history, journalism, linguistics, measurement, psychology, and rhetoric.
Topics of continuing interest include:
- interactions among writing systems and composing technologies
- the history of writing systems
- the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction
- construct development and validation
- innovative classroom teaching and principled assessment of L1 and multilingual literacy practices
- genre
- transcultural and trans-scriptal writing practices
- the role of writing in the social construction of knowledge
- materialist studies of writing
- research from historically marginalized locations of writing
- the nature and uses of writing in disciplinary, professional, civic, and personal domains
- cognitive processes of text-production
- multimodality and transmodality
- relationships among gender, race, socioeconomic status, disability, neurodivergence, and writing
- studies of writing as a means of oppression, liberation, and resistance
- connections among writing, reading, speaking, and listening
Any manuscript that engages with and contributes to ongoing conversations in and around writing studies is welcome for consideration.
Theoretical and applied contributions of articles in Written Communication are made explicit and are relevant to researchers and teachers from a range of scholarly disciplines. Published articles will collectively represent a wide range of methodologies, but the method for each study must be handled expertly. Written Communication is an English-medium journal, although we are open to research conducted on any writers or any writing system.
| Dylan Dryer | University of Maine, USA |
| Mya Poe | Northeastern University |
| Dani English | Northeastern University, USA |
| Maryam Khan | University of Maine, USA |
| Rui Alexandre Alves | University of Porto, Portugal |
| Chris Anson | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Natasha Artemeva | Carleton University, Canada |
| Charles Bazerman | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Davida Charney | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Ellen Cushman | Northeastern University, USA |
| Susan De La Paz | University of Maryland, College Park, USA |
| Huiling Ding | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Christiane Donahue | Dartmouth College, USA |
| John Duffy | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Patricia Dunmire | Kent State University, USA |
| Anne Haas Dyson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Tisha Lewis Ellison | University of Georgia, USA |
| Kerry Enright | University of California at Davis, USA |
| Steven Fraiberg | Michigan State University, USA |
| Joachim Grabowski | University of Hannover, Germany |
| S. Scott Graham | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| David Hanauer | Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Bill Hart-Davidson | Michigan State University, USA |
| Nigel Harwood | University of Sheffield, UK |
| John R. Hayes | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Rosalind Horowitz | The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Brian Huot | Kent State University, USA |
| Catherine Kell | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Theresa Lillis | The Open University, UK |
| Cati V. de los Ríos | University of California, Berkeley |
| Paul Kei Matsuda | Arizona State University |
| Sarah McCarthey | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA |
| Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Kathy A. Mills | Australian Catholic University |
| Federico Navarro | O’Higgins University, Chile, USA |
| John Oddo | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Lynda Olman | University of Nevada, Reno, USA |
| Stacey Pigg | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Paul Prior | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Patrick Proctor | Boston College, USA |
| Jason Ranker | Portland State University, USA |
| Thomas Reynolds | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA |
| Gert Rijlaarsdam | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Derek Ross | Auburn University, USA |
| Blake Scott | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Stefan Slembrouck | University of Gent, Belgium |
| Clay Spinuzzi | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Amy Stornaiuolo | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Jason Swarts | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Christine Tardy | University of Arizona, USA |
| Christa Teston | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Zoi Traga-Philippakos | University of Tennessee, USA |
| David Wallace | California State University, Long Beach, USA |
| Åsa Wengelin | Gothenburg University, Sweden |
| Maisha T. Winn | University of California, Davis, USA |
| Christopher Wolfe | Department of Psychology, Miami University, USA |
| Joanna Wolfe | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Youngjoo Yi | The Ohio State University, USA |
| Xiaoye You | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
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