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Rhetoric and Composition Journals

  • Across the Disciplines — refereed journal devoted to language, learning, and academic writing
  • ACJ — American Communication Journal publishes articles dedicated to the study of communication.
  • Ars-rhetorica — articles on rhetrical theoretics, critical analytics and hermeneutics across all disciplines.
  • CCC On-line — College Composition and Communication Journal
  • C&C — Computers and Composition
  • Enculturation — refereed journal devoted to contemporary theorizations of rhetoric, writing, and culture.
  • Kairos — A journal for teachers of writing in webbed environments
  • Lore — an e-journal for for adjunct and graduate student teachers of writing published three times a year and edited by TAs, adjuncts, and assistant professors
  • Pretext
  • Poroi — an online peer-reviewed journal focuses on rhetorical analysis and invention.
  • Quarterly Journal of Speech — table of contents available on-line post 1989
  • Queen — a journal of rhetoric and power
  • RhetNet — A cyberjournal for reading and writing
  • Rhetorical Review — focuses on the history of rhetoric.
  • The Writing Instructor — undergoing reconstruction and server updates, November 2006.

Print Journals

  • Basic Writing e-Journal
  • CJC — Canadian Journal of Communication
  • College English — publishes articles about rhetoric-composition, critical theory, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related to the teaching of English
  • Composition Forum — journal of pedagogical theory in rhetoric and composition
  • Composition Studies — publishes articles associated with rhetoric and composition: teaching college writing; theorizing rhetoric and composing; administering writing related programs; preparing the field's future teacher-scholars.
  • JAC — Journal of Composition Theory published theoretical articles on a variety of topics related to rhetoric, writing, multiple literacies, and the politics of education.
  • Journal of Teaching Writing —
  • Philosophy and Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric Review — A journal of rhetoric and composition
  • Rhetoric Society Quarterly — abstracts available on-linee for all articles published in RSQ since Jan. 2000.

I also recommend checking out H-Rhetor — an on-line discussion of the history of rhetoric

©2005 Katherine Heenan

updated: August 13, 2009