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Journal Name	Description
Academic.Writing	Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum.
Advances in the History of Rhetoric	"A collection of papers that have been presented at colloquia, panels, and seminars sponsored by the American Society for the History of Rhetoric throughout the year". The homepage provides subscription and content information.
American Communication Journal	"The premier online scholarly refereed journal dedicated to the study of communication"
Argumentation: An International Journal on Reasoning	One of the most important journals devoted to the study of argumentation
Argumentation & Advocacy	Published by the American Forensic Association, the "professional organization of educators and researchers in argumentation and public advocacy". The homepage provides subscription and content information.
Assessing Writing	Assessing Writing is a refereed international journal providing a forum for ideas, research and practice on the assessment of written language.
Basic Writing Electronic Journal	Work on teaching 'basic' writing
Book History	Cultural, Economic, Social and Political work on literacy and the history of the book.
BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal	"Basic Writing e-Journal is designed to be an electronic forum to help broaden our conversations about Basic Writing"
The Classical Review	"Publishes reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome"
College Compositon and Communication	The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication
College English	Key journal in English Studies. "We publish articles on both literature and composition as well as other disciplinary concerns, and we are open to all theoretical approaches and schools of thought." The site does not have articles online, but has submission, and subscription information.
Computers & Composition	Studies of Computers & Writing
Currents in Electronic Literacy	Ejournal published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas,Austin.
Discourse: Berkeley Journal for Theoretical Studies	Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.
Discourse Processes	Discourse Processes is a multidisciplinary journal providing a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse—prose comprehension and recall, dialogue analysis, text grammar construction, computer simulation of natural language, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics.
Enculturation	"Refereed journal devoted to contemporary theorizations of rhetoric, writing, and culture." (seems to have stopped in 2004)
English Education	English Education is published by the Conference on English Education, and serves as a forum for discussion of issues related to (1) the nature of our discipline, especially as it spans all levels of instruction, and (2) the education and development of teachers of English at all levels.
Diacritics	Theory, Politics and Discourse Analsyis
English for Specific Purposes	Linguistic study of academic and non-academic discourse
Informal Logic: Reasoning & Argumentation in Theory and Practice	"A scholarly journal devoted to theoretical and practical issues in the theories of reasoning and argumentation." The homepage provides subscription and content information.
Inventio	"Creative Thinking about Learning and Teaching...Regular issues, one each semester, feature peer-reviewed articles on instructional research, instructional philosophy, pedagogy, learning theory, and other significant issues related to excellence in learning and teaching."
JAC	Journal of Advanced Composition Online. "Rhetoric, writing, multiple literacies, and the politics of education."
Journal of Applied Communications Research	JACR intends to: showcase the best theoretically-driven research that focuses on problems, practical situations, and practices; support the study of communication that identifies, analyzes, and implicates the problems and practices emanating from the personal, social, cultural, global, and professional areas of society; publish important and relevant applied research emphasizing rigorous methodology; demonstrate that the theoretical and applied areas of communication inquiry are mutually compatible and interdependent.
JSRCNT	Journal for the study of Rhetorical Criticism of the New Testament.
Journal of Design Communication Issues	"To promote communication among educators and researchers in the design disciplines... including sketching, drawing, verbal and written communication, CAD, internet, multimedia, and other design communication tools."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History	Study of the history, organization and discourses of disciplines
Journal of Pragmatics	Linguistics/Sociolinguistics
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication	"For over thirty years, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication has served as a major professional and scholarly Journal for practitioners and teachers of most functional forms of communication."
KAIROS	A journal for teachers of writing in webbed environments"
Language Arts	Language Arts is a professional journal for elementary and middle school teachers and teacher educators. It provides a forum for discussions on all aspects of language arts learning and teaching, primarily as they relate to children in pre-kindergarten through the eighth grade. Issues discuss both theory and classroom practice, highlight current research, and review children's and young adolescent literature, as well as classroom and professional materials of interest to language arts educators.
LORE	LORE is an electronic journal sponsored by the Rhetoric and Writing Studies department at San Diego State university. The journal's focus is on rhetoric, writing and culture. LORE publishes essays, research projects, discussions of teaching strategies and practices, creative writing, reviews of books/software/web sites, and interviews.
Mind, Culture, and Activity: An International Journal (1994-1997)	Michael Cole,Yrjo Engestrom, James V. Wertsch et al edit this journal, which is strongly influenced by Vygotskian approaches to mind, language and culture.
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching, Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture	The journal attempts to bridge teaching issues with intellectual and scholarly ones. It thus develops some of the issues found in journals like College English and Radical Teacher
Philosophy & Rhetoric	Philosophy & Rhetoric
Poetics Today	Poetics, semiotics, narrative
Political Communication	Analyses of Political Communication
POROI	POROI focuses on the rhetoric of inquiry, and features "studies of the production, distribution, and reception of knowledge and culture."
PRETEXT (Electra-Lite)	Rhetoric, Composition, Cultural Studies & Theory
Quarterly Journal of Speech from 02/01/1928 to 1 year ago in Communication & Mass Media Complete From 02/01/2003 to present in Taylor & Francis Journals	Essays in the journal generally consider the theory and criticism of situated discourse in its various forms and venues, including the oral and written, public and private, direct and mediated, historical and contemporary. Although research in the journal is generally humanistic, the journal's mission and focus are not limited to any particular methodology or set of methodologies. Issues, texts, and research questions significant to improved understanding of discourse practices are featured.
Representations JSTOR Coverage: Nos. 1 - 80, 1983-2002 2001 to present in University of California Press Journals	"Scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences." Includes some linguistic and rhetorical analysis.
Research in the Teaching of English	Multiple approaches to conducting research on literacy practices
Rhetorica	Examines the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion and law." The journal has a homepage.
Rhetoric & Public Afffairs	Rhetoric & Public Affairs is a new interdisciplinary journal devoted to the history, theory, and criticism of public discourse. Published quarterly, the journal explores the traditional arenas of rhetorical investigation include executive leadership, diplomacy, political campaigns, judicial and legislative deliberations, and public policy debate (web page has subscription info only).
Rhetoric Review (2000-present) (1982-2000 via JSTOR)	Publishes scholarly and historical studies, theoretical and practical articles, provocative pieces on the profession, humorous repartee, substantial review essays, and reflections.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly	Published quarterly by the Rhetoric Society of America.
School Talk	School Talk is a lively six-page newsletter designed specifically to help classroom teachers bridge the gap between the ideal and the real world of teaching. Presented in a friendly, informal voice, each issue focuses on one particular topic and deals in practical terms with questions that teachers everywhere are asking.
The Research Network Forum of CCCC	Contains abstracts of papers delivered over the years at the Research Network Forum of the CCCC conference.
Southern Communication Journal
Teaching English in the Two Year College	TETYC is for instructors of English in two-year colleges as well as for teachers of first- and second-year composition in four-year institutions. TETYC publishes theoretical and practical articles on composition, developmental studies, technical and business communication, literature, creative expression, language, and the profession.
Techné	Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. Range of work on philosophy of technology.
Technical Communication Quarterly	Journal of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
TESL-EJ	Teaching English as a Second Language Electronic Journal
TESOL journal
TESOL Quarterly	Key journal for work relating to English as a Second Languag
Text	Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
The Writing Instructor	"The Writing Instructor is a blind, peer-reviewed journal, publishing in print since 1981 and on the Internet since June, 2001. Its distinguished editorial board consists of over 150 scholars-teachers-writers representing over 75 universities, community colleges, and K-12 schools."
Western journal of speech communication	Articles, review articles and commentary on all aspects of applied communication and theory.
Word Works	"A series of short essays on rhetoric and composition ...by members of the Writing Center staff and of the BSU faculty, it is intended as a resource for instructors in any discipline who are interested in using writing to enhance learning."
WRITING TEACHER	Print only (see catalogue).
Written Communication	"Committed to the belief that a comprehensive study of writing is best served through a multidisciplinary approach, Written Communication regularly features pieces from a variety of fields including: Composition, Rhetoric, Literature, Linguistics, Psychology, Anthropology, Journalism, History, Sociology, Technical Communication." The journal has a homepage.
Written Language & Literacy