Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications
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Subject Guide
Key Journals
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- Argumentation "... an international and interdisciplinary journal that gathers academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, classical and modern rhetoric, linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, formal and informal logic, critical thinking, history and law."
- College Composition and Communication "... publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching writing and that reflects the most current scholarship and theory in the field."
- Composition Studies Publishes essays on theories of composition and rhetoric, the teaching and administration of writing and rhetoric at all post-secondary levels and disciplinary-institutional issues of interest to the field's teacher-scholars. It includes course designs, an innovative feature on curricular development in writing and rhetoric of interest to teachers at all post-secondary levels. (ulrichsweb)
- Critical Discourse Studies "... an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change."
- Discourse & Communication "... an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles in the cross-disciplinary fields of discourse studies and communication studies. Published quarterly, it focuses on the qualitative, discourse analytical study of organizational and mass communication."
- Discourse & Society Explores the relevance of discourse analysis to the social sciences, with a particular focus on the political implications of discourse and communication. (ulrichsweb)
- Discourse Processes Provides a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines sharing a common interest in discourse - prose comprehension and recall, text grammar construction, cross-cultural comparisons of communicative competence, or related topics. (ulrichsweb)
- Discourse Studies Publishes notable research on the structures of written and spoken discourse, with emphasis on cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law. (ulrichsweb)
- JAC : a journal of composition theory "... a forum for the interdisciplinary study of rhetoric, writing, culture, and politics." (publisher's website)
- Philosophy and Rhetoric ... dedicated to publication of high-quality articles involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric.
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs "... explores the traditional arenas of rhetorical investigation including executive leadership, diplomacy, political campaigns, judicial and legislative deliberations, and public policy debate." (publisher's website)
- Rhetorica "... includes articles, book reviews and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion and law."
- Rhetoric Review Publishes in all areas of rhetoric and writing and provides a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues. (ulrichsweb)
- Rhetoric Society Quarterly "... the official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, features original articles on all areas of rhetorical studies including theory, history, criticism, and pedagogy."
- Text & Talk "... an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment."
- Textual Studies in Canada Dedicated to Canadian cultural texts in all media. Combines discussions of Canadian culture, literature, visual arts and interdisciplinary studies. (ulrichsweb)
- Written Communication "... a broad, interdisciplinary, and essential journal for research on the study of writing in all its symbolic forms."
Key Databases
- JSTOR [JSTOR] This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals, as well as books and primary sources published by various publishers and presses. It contains material across a range of disciplines from the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
- MLA International Bibliography [EBSCOhost] This link opens in a new windowThe MLA (Modern Languages Association) database is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore and linguistics.
- Google ScholarUse Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index [Web of Science] This link opens in a new windowArts & Humanities Citation Index is a database that provides access to citations, abstracts, and conference proceedings allowing for in-depth exploration of fields within the arts & humanities. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from many research journals. It also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching, which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Other unique features this database possesses are Analyze Results, and Create Citation Reports.
- Project MUSE Premium This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is a multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed journals published by university presses and scholarly societies. It contains material across a range of disciplines from the social sciences and humanities.
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