Written Communication

No longer posting here—see our Linktree. An International Quarterly of Writing Research and Theory, since 1984. Published with @SageJournals.

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Starting today, we will be using our other platforms and not X. Please find our other social media via our Linktree
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If you would like to revisit his work following his passing, you can find his 1999 article "In Defense of Private Writing" in Vol. 16, No. 2 of Written Communication. A number of his other articles are linked on his website, https://t.co/JTzDnqgJTf

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Elbow critiqued the teacher-as-audience approach of many first-year writing courses and the "rigid academic conventions that often stifled students." Instead, Elbow "emphasized free-writing exercises, personal reflection and peer feedback."
#AcademicWriting #FreshmanComposition

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On Feb. 27, @nytimes published an obituary for Peter Elbow, American rhetoric & composition scholar whose work changed how many approach teaching first-year English composition courses (also known as #FYC)
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Muhammad, G. E. (2015). Iqra: African American Muslim Girls Reading and Writing for Social Change. Written Communication, 32(3), 286–316. https://t.co/OXK297LdhR

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In the US and Canada, February is #BlackHistoryMonth!

Did you know that Black History Month can be traced back to 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson proposed "Negro History Week"?

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McDaniel, D. (2025). Samirah X’s Sense of Audience: A Case Study on Black Teen Activism on Social Media. Written Communication, 42(2), 07410883241303918. https://t.co/0XJPQywVgH

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CFP: Special issue of Written Communication on “Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Community, Government, and Workplace Writing Research”!

The full #callforpapers is in our Linktree.

#communityresearch #workplaceresearch #governmentresearch #writing #methodology

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- "The Impact of Subordination Type and Finiteness on Second Language Development in Timed Impromptu Writing: An NLP-Based Analysis Using the Subordination Sophistication Analyzer" by Haerim Hwang

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Our first issue of Vol. 42 (January 2025) is now available online!

In this issue, you can find articles covering #selfregulation, #literature, #classroomresearch, #estonian, #secondlanguagewriting, #queertheory, and #temporality!

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- "Decoding Metadiscourse Markers in Estonian Academic Texts: A Language-Specific Perspective"
by Helen Hint, et al.

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