College Composition and Communication
Dados do Periódico
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editora | National Council of Teachers of English (US) |
| ISSN | 0010-096X / 1939-9006 |
| Scopus | 24052 |
| Wikidata | Q15753515 |
| OpenAlex | S89474686 |
| MAG | 89474686 |
| Site | http://www.jstor.org/journals/0010096X.html |
| Total de publicações | 229 |
| Período coberto | 1959 - 2026 |
| País | US |
| Idioma | EN |
| Indexação | Scopus |
| Citada por | 127 |
| Fator de impacto | 0.248 |
| SJR | 0.207 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 0.728 |
| CiteScore | 0.9 |
| Índice h | 8 |
| Índice i10 | 4 |
| Participação feminina na autoria | 53.1% |
This journal focuses on rhetoric, composition, and communication studies in higher education. While communication is a broad field, its primary orientation is pedagogical and linguistic rather than social or cultural anthropology. Anthropological content would be occasional and not central to its scope
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Research Brief
This Research Brief presents an overview of current research in community-engaged writing, particularly foregrounding the importance of praxis-oriented and collaborative approaches. Here, we articulate collaboration, reciprocity, and accountability as some of the main tenets of community-engaged writing, and we showcase the variety of projects that such work can include (from local food writing to prison literacy work to transnational social just…
Crying Censorship Wolf
US higher education faces mounting political pressure and censorship, resulting in threats to our institutional missions and challenges to academic freedom. In this article, we trace two moments in disciplinary history that examine (mis)understandings of how censorship functions: efforts to roll back the Guidelines for Nonsexist Use of Language in NCTE Publications (now Statement on Gender and Language ) and Students’ Right to Their Own Language …
(Re)Considering Centrality
This article examines one of the largest and most influential sites of knowledge production in the field of writing studies: College Composition and Communication ( CCC ). Based on a bibliometric network analysis of intra-journal citations in the journal, this article uses two metrics borrowed from network science, eigenvector and betweenness centrality, to highlight different “centers” of CCC . As this article illustrates, whereas the eigenvecto…
CCCC Exemplar Award Acceptance Speech
Investigating Undergraduate L2 Students’ Source Use Development in a Semi-Disciplinary Writing Context
Because source use is a key academic literacy skill tied to students’ socialization into the university, scholars have called for more research on how novice second language (L2) writers’ use of sources changes over time as they engage with disciplinary discourse. The present study, therefore, tracked the semester-long development of thirty undergraduate L2 students’ source use in a research writing seminar course. Each student wrote two research…
CCCC Secretary’s Report
Writing Transfer beyond FYC
This article seeks to present a model of critical factors that influence writing transfer by exploring and extending conversations happening in the field. The article identifies five critical and interconnected factors that support writing transfer: connection, perception, reflection, disposition, and fortification. These factors emerge from an integration of writing transfer scholarship and data from a longitudinal study of student writers. In t…
CCCC Chair’s Address
This piece was originally delivered as the CCCC Chair’s Address at the 2025 CCCC Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 10, 2025. It has been lightly revised for a print format
CCCC Chair’s Letter
This letter was written for the CCCC membership in September 2025; it has been lightly edited for publication here
Money Machine
Taking stock of the diminishing material conditions faced by contemporary writers broadly conceived, this article (re)frames writing as a site and a practice of exploited labor. Arguing that writing scholars have often avoided interrogating writing’s links to labor, particularly with respect to declining working conditions and the appropriation of value from workers, I draw attention to the pervasive crisis of writing’s devaluation under late cap…
Black Women in the Control Room
This article focuses on the seldom-discussed literacies of the Hip Hop audio engineer through the experiences of Lyrix, a Black woman audio engineer from the Midwest. Grounded in the literature of literacy scholars invested in the sonic dimensions of Hip Hop culture, two research questions guide this article: How does one develop their expertise as an audio engineer, and what insights can be gathered about literacy learning by focusing on margina…
From an Unsettled Middle
From an unsettled, ambivalent middle between discourses of generative AI integration and refusal, we offer a critical-ethical stance for AI-engaged writing assignments. We apply a critical thinking framework to these assignments, assert critical AI literacy as a kind of critical thinking, and discuss how critical thinking and critical AI literacy can facilitate ethical discernment about generative AI use. This unsettled, critical-ethical stance p…
Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI
In a relatively short time, market and political forces have intensified the reach of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has become, in a word, climatic—not only a discrete technological system but also a creeping assemblage of ideological, material, and political forces. This article tracks these forces by developing rhetorical climates of AI as a conceptual framework. In doing so, I aim to (1) link the harms of climate change with the rapid build…
Research Brief
This Research Brief discusses transformers—the core engine for most artificial intelligence applications. The brief situates transformer technology within the field of rhetoric and composition by surveying recent studies; highlights the innovative aspects of transformers; and, finally, thinks through (Majdik and Graham) the operations of transformers and generative AI through Miller’s theory of topoi, illustrating one way in which rhetoric and co…
From Cheating to Cheat Codes
In gaming, cheat codes change how players engage a system by inviting exploration and reducing the fear of failure. Drawing on writing center pedagogy, this article proposes a similar framework for navigating generative AI in writing instruction and positions play as a method for developing critical AI literacy. Writing centers have long served as spaces where students engage collaboratively with new technologies and construct meaning through dia…
AI Writing Is Always Embodied
I argue that composition studies must build critical awareness about how humans from the Global South train AI with their writing embodiments. To draw our attention to how those working in the Global South train AI in harmful conditions, even though AI companies use algorithms and terms of service to smooth away these embodiments, I adapt the concept of humans-in-the-loop. Critical awareness of humans-in-the-loop moves scholarship in writing stud…
Syntactic Complexity of AI-Generated Argumentative and Narrative Texts
The integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into academic writing has raised questions about the syntactic complexity of AI-generated texts compared to human-authored essays. While studies have explored syntactic complexity in human writing, limited research has compared AI-generated argumentative and narrative texts, particularly in isolating cognitive overload and proficiency factors. This study addressed this gap by examining ge…
Using the AI Life Cycle to Unblackbox AI Tools
In response to disruptions introduced to the job market by AI resume screeners, this article introduces a novel theoretical framework for the life cycle of artificial intelligence systems to help unblackbox resume screening AI systems. It then applies the AI life cycle framework to a digital case study of RChilli’s job-resume matching algorithm. The article introduces an eleven-step computational job-resume matching assignment that writing instru…
Beyond the Best of Both Worlds
This study explores student engagements with hybrid writing courses, revealing their experiences and perceptions of a modality that blends in-person and online instruction. Hybrid learning as a format is often overshadowed by its association with fully online instruction. After a number of writing courses on our campus were redesigned for hybrid delivery, we conducted interviews and focus groups with students taking those courses. What we found, …
Writing for Perspective
Extracting a writer’s profile from a broader literacy study aimed at documenting extracurricular literacy practices among the Latinx population in Northwest Arkansas, this article presents a case study of a Peruvian woman’s lifelong use of literacy to enhance her personal agency in the face of personal, social, and civic demands. The article presents the writer’s profile as an indicator of the various literacy demands faced by the Latinx communit…
Transduction and the Conceptual Overlap between Multimodality and Transfer
Exploring multimodality and transfer from the perspective of transduction (a multidisciplinary term that describes a change in form as something moves from one state to another) reveals conceptual overlap between the two concepts. Transfer is fundamentally multimodal because anything moving from one “place” to the next must change its form (or modality) in some way. Multimodality also inherently involves a transfer from one context to another. Ea…
Using Eye Tracking as a Peer Review Tool for Visual and Digital Compositions
The majority of what we compose, we compose for others. Because audience impact is central to the success of writing and designing, peer review tests how our compositions work in the world. Accordingly, we have built decades of scholarship establishing best practices for sharing our work with others, especially as new technologies emerge. This article argues for the introduction of eye tracking as a tool that can supplement peer review, offering …
Constructivist Writing Placement
This article presents a constructivist writing placement framework, developed from the study of two pilot iterations of a local writing placement mechanism at a large public research university. Through preliminary analysis of data from these pilots, we present a model of constructivist writing placement and demonstrate how it helps move conceptualizations of student agency as primarily housed within student exercise of choice toward more robust …
“Because We’re Going to Mess Up”
What are we in rhetoric, writing, and literacy studies currently practicing? What practices do harm and, in contrast, which counter harm? How do we disrupt everyday, cumulative, and structural injustices and instead invest in accountability? In addition to asking these and other questions, this article engages four accountability practices that are necessary for countering the ongoing violence of the mythical norm (Lorde), of domination, and of h…
Postcapitalist Professionalization
Critiques of neoliberal capitalism have offered a rich vocabulary for the analysis of the political economy of literacy across professional, public, and classroom contexts. Since the Great Recession, commonplaces about work-readiness have been conditioned by economic precarity and changes to the social contract of work that blur the lines between professionalization and exploitation. Looking beyond the confines of the neoliberal present, the unce…
Rhetoric in Popular Culture
Preface Part I. THEORY 1. Rhetoric and Popular Culture The Rhetoric of Everyday Life The Building Blocks of Culture: Signs 2. Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Tradition The Rhetorical Tradition: Ancient Greece 3. Rhetorical Methods in Critical Studies Texts Influence through Meanings 4. Varieties of Rhetorical Criticism, part one An Introduction to Critical Perspectives Culture-centered Criticism Marxist Criticism Visual Rhetorical Criticism Psychoana…
Words in Ads
Preface - new! improved!! not tested on animals!!! introduction - the air in your Aero 7 shades whiter beanz meanz Heinz - what makes slogans stick? it is. are you? - sentence types and sentence structure players pleas - puns, associations, and meanings you in the shocking pink shellsuit - pronouns and address bread wi' nowt taken owt - languages and varieties as signs do we have time for a coffee? - conversations and everyday life shall I compar…
The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric
The first book to examine closely how the relationship of Cicero s oral and written skills bears on his legal argumentation.Enos argues that, more than any other Roman advocate, Cicero developed a literate mind which enabled him to construct arguments that were both compelling in court and popular in society. Through close examination of the audience and substance of Cicero s legal rhetoric, Enos shows that Cicero used his writing skills as an ai…
The Octopus
Based on an actual bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this novel depicts the dying days of the western frontier of America
Transgender Rhetorics
This essay attempts to demonstrate how transgender theories can inspire pedagogical methods that complement feminist compositionist pedagogical approaches to understanding the narration of gender as a social construct. By examining sample student writing generated by a prompt inspired by transgender theories, the author’s analysis suggests how trans theories might usefully expand and extend—for both instructors and students—our analysis of the st…
Writing and Revising the Disciplines
Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate
Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and possibilities “rhetorical, emotional, and material” of constructing narratives that “cross publics
An Introduction to Journalism
Theory, Text, Context
Conceptual Blockbusting
The Rhetoric of Film
Understanding Media
Our Students Write with Accents. Oral Paradigms for ESD Students
Talking to Students
Peer Review and Revising in an Anthropology Course
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Cultural Literacy
Berkeley
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Directions in Psycholinguistics
Linguistics and English Grammar
The New Wildhagen German Dictionary
Understanding Media
The Negro American
Dices or Black Bones
Language Is Sermonic
Grammar as Style
Meaning and Structure
Fundamentals of Linguistic Analysis
Open Admissions and the Disadvantaged Teacher
For anyone who has witnessed the success of many young men and women who were taught to fail, has watched them lay claim to their talents, meet their commitments and set out with a plan in their minds, the widespread pessimism about whether Open Admissions can work, as they put it, is baffling. Especially baffling is the fact that this pessimism was deep-rooted even before any of the new students had stepped on our campuses. By now, there is a li…
The Rhetoric of Film
Literature of the American Indian
Classical Rhetoric and Technical Writing
Television
This anthology, first published in 1976, is used in courses on television criticism, television history, media & society, and broadcasting. The 7th edition, which is comprised of virtually all new selections, features a slightly revamped organization, adding sections on History and Reception. In addition, this revision expands its international focus, with pieces on the Chinese soap opera, Brazilian telenovelas, and the role of race in Puerto Ric…
Readings in the Theory of Grammar
Conceptual Blockbusting
Principles of Language Learning and Teaching
A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing
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Analyzing Classifications
Some Exploratory Discourse on Metadiscourse
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Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse
A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric