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Written Communication is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Writing and Handwriting Education, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Written Communication, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Writing and Handwriting Education EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Reading and Literacy Development |
| ISSN | 0741-0883 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.84 |
| h-index | 96 |
| i10-index | 544 |
| Total citations | 38,663 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Journal website | wcx.sagepub.com |
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In Section 1 of this article, the author discusses the succession of models of adult writing that he and his colleagues have proposed from 1980 to the present. He notes the most important changes that differentiate earlier and later models and discusses reasons for the changes. In Section 2, he describes his recent efforts to…
Frequently writing is now no longer the central mode of representation in learning materials—textbooks, Web-based resources, teacher-produced materials. Still (as well as moving) images are increasingly prominent as carriers of meaning. Uses and forms of writing have undergone profound changes over the last decades, which calls for a social, pedagogical, and semiotic explanation. Two trends…
Metadiscourse refers to writers' discourse about their discourse—their directions for how readers should read, react to, and evaluate what they have written about the subject matter. In this study the authors divided metadiscourse into textual metadiscourse (text markers and interpretive markers) and interpersonal metadiscourse (hedges, certainty markers, attributors, attitude markers, and commentary). The purpose was…
This article reports research that attempts to characterize what is powerful about digital multimodal texts. Building from recent theoretical work on understanding the workings and implications of multimodal communication, the authors call for a continuing empirical investigation into the roles that digital multimodal texts play in real-world contexts, and they offer one example of how…
The relation between writing in formal schooling and writing in other social practices is a central problem in writing research (e.g., critical pedagogy, writing in nonacademic settings, cognition in variable social contexts). How do macro-level social and political structures (forces) affect micro-level literate actions in classrooms and vice versa? To address these questions, the author…
