Written Communication (Journal)

On November 12, 2009, The National Council of Teachers of English established October 20th as the National Day on Writing!

What compels you to write? Celebrate by using the hashtag #WhyIWrite the week of October 20th!

8. “Popularization Writing Skills Development: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Writing Process and Writing Outcomes in Nine Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Students” by Marnel Sterk et al. #WritingSkills

7. “Ownership, Accuracy, & Aesthetics: University Writers’ Perceptions of GenAI Poetry” by Nicholes
#GenAI

6. “Exploring the Move Structure and Interdiscursive Strategies in Leader Messages in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports of Chinese and U.S. Corporations” by Deng, Min, & Gao
#corporatecommunication

5. “Gateways to a Different World of Meaning: Expanding Theme Use in Primary-Aged Children’s Writing” by Bodger
#primaryschool

3. “Ecologies of Research Writing in Chinese Universities” by Bhatt & Chen
4. “The Structure of Argumentative Texts Written by Hebrew Speaking Children in Primary Schools: Relationships Between Writing & Reading Comprehension” by Zadunaisky Ehrlich & Stavans #Hebrew #CorporateCommunication

In this issue:
1. “Seeing Images, Reading Hieroglyphs: A Reassessment of the Functions of Nonalphabetic Writing and Literacy in Old Kingdom Egypt” by Almansa-Villatoro
2. “Attitudes & Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Writing in Costa Rican Students” by Concha et al.
#Hieroglyphs #AncientEgypt #CostaRica

All articles for Volume 42.4 (October 2025) are available online now!

- Writing in Virtual Reality: Understanding Invention, Collaboration, and Friction in Hybrid Spaces by Shivener & Caravella #VR
- Legitimation in The Giving Pledge: Constituting a #Rhetoric of #Wealth by Gulbrandsen & Eisenhart

- Synthesizing Professional Knowledge and Racial Literacy Content Through Explicit Composing Instruction: A Discourse Synthesis Study by Schneider et al. #RacialLiteracy
- Digitally-Mediated Microprocesses of Novice #Multilingual Writers: Textualization in Focus by Nasrollahi Shahri & Karimi-Aghdam

- Writing and Reading Qualitative Characters by Smagorinsky
- Move-Structure Analysis of Police Written Witness Statements in Ghana: An Account of a Context-Defining Police Discourse by Kunkuri & Mintah

- Does #ChatGPT Write Like a Student? Engagement Markers in Argumentative Essays by Jiang & Hyland
- Women Scientists’ Digitally Mediated Activity, Genres and Digital Tools: A Cross-sectional Survey Across the Disciplines by Pérez-Llantada et al. #WomeninSTEM

We have a new issue available online now! The July 2025 (42.3) issue features eight total articles!

The University of Victoria, BC, notes that "there are more than 70 Indigenous languages across 12 language families in Canada. And they represent countless generations of accumulated traditional knowledge and ways of knowing and being."

We also want to highlight Canada's upcoming observance of National Indigenous Languages Day on March 31. Since 1993, National Indigenous Languages Day has invited both Indigenous & non-Indigenous Canadians to learn about & celebrate the linguistic heritage of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.

List of articles: Candelaria-Greene, J. (1994). Misperspectives on Literacy: A Critique of an Anglocentric Bias in Histories of American Literacy. 11(2), 251–269. Cushman, E. (2011). The Cherokee Syllabary: A Writing System In Its Own Right. 28(3), 255–281. Hankerson, S. (2023). “The World Has to Stop Discriminating Against African American Language” (AAL): Exploring the Language Ideologies of AAL-Speaking Students in College Writing. 40(2), 587–619. Kells, M. H. (2002). Linguistic Contact Zones in the College Writing Classroom: An Examination of Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Attitudes. 19(1), 5–43. Lee, E. (2023). Writing Toward a Decolonial Option: A Bilingual Student’s Multimodal Composing as a Site of Translingual Activism and Justice. 40(1), 59–89. Seltzer, K. (2022). “A Lot of Students Are Already There”: Repositioning Language-Minoritized Students as “Writers in Residence” in English Classrooms. 39(1), 44–65.

March 27th is the International Day of Multilingualism! #MultilingualIsNormal
In honor of this worldwide celebration, we want to share some articles that touch on the linguistic & dialectical diversity within the US, where our co-editors & editorial assistants are based.

The 2023-2024 Best Article in Written Communication Felicitamos a la Dra. Judith Kalman y los coautores del artículo "Don´t tell them what you told me. Negotiating paperwork in Mexico City", por haber recibido el reconocimiento al mejor artículo de 202...

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- "Critical Incidents in the Expansive-by-Design Classroom" by Brian Hendrickson

- "Moderated Mediating Effect of Writing Self-Regulation Strategies on Writing Scores" by Qiaoyan Mao, et al.

- "Translanguaging Space Construction in Five Chinese EFL Learners’ Collaborative English-Language Culture-Introduction Videos: Patterns and Influential Factors" by Lawrence Zhang

- "Capturing Nonlinear Intercultural Development via Student Reflective Writing" by Rebekah Sims, et al.

- "Reflections-on-Action: Using Critical Disability Studies to Reconceptualize the Net Work of Social Work Students in Interprofessional Simulations" by Melissa Guadrón

- "Samirah X’s Sense of Audience: A Case Study on Black Teen Activism on Social Media" by Dominique McDaniel

- "Effects of Online Professional Development on First-Grade Writing Instruction: Coaching plus Manual Improves Teachers’ Implementation. . ." by Zoi Traga-Philippakos, et al.

Our April 2025 (Vol. 42, No. 2) issue is available online now!

In this issue, you can read the following articles (see thread)

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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. doi.org/10.1177/0741...

McDaniel, D. (2025). Samirah X’s Sense of Audience: A Case Study on Black Teen Activism on Social Media. Written Communication, 42(2), 07410883241303918. doi.org/10.1177/0741...

Lewis Ellison, T., Robinson, B., & Qiu, T. (2020). Examining African American Girls’ Literate Intersectional Identities Through Journal Entries and Discussions About STEM. Written Communication, 37(1), 3–40. doi.org/10.1177/0741...

Hankerson, S. (2023). “The World Has to Stop Discriminating Against African American Language” (AAL): Exploring the Language Ideologies of AAL-Speaking Students in College Writing. Written Communication, 40(2), 587–619. doi.org/10.1177/0741...

Cunningham, J. M. (2014). Features of Digital African American Language in a Social Network Site. Written Communication, 31(4), 404–433. doi.org/10.1177/0741...

List of citations which are in the thread.

We have some reading suggestions from our journal below. While not focused on history exclusively, these are just a few of our articles which highlight the experiences of Black writers in a variety of settings. Feel free to share your own reading suggestions with us, too!