FIU Libraries: Rhetoric and Composition Research Guide: Accessing Journals

Main journals for the field of Writing & Rhetoric

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To access College Composition and Communication (CCC)

Go to the FIU Libraries website
Click on the “eJournals” tab at the top of the page.
Type in “College Composition and Communication,” then access via the last option listed, the Social Science Premium collection (only goes back to 1997, but is the easiest to search using a Boolean search).

For example, to find articles in this journal about code-meshing, you would access CCC, then search for the term “code-meshing” OR “code meshing” in the search field. This search gives you 12 of the most recent articles on code-meshing in CCC, including articles by top scholars, Asao Inoue; A. Suresh Canagarajah; Vershawn Young, and others.

College Composition and Communication (National Council of Teachers of English)
Articles, counterstatement and reviews on the theory, practice, history and politics of composition and its teaching at all college levels, research into the teaching of writing and the preparation of writing teachers. The principle journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Most articles explore pedagogical applications of composition theory and research.

To access College English

Go to the FIU Libraries website
Click on the “eJournals” tab at the top of the page.
Type in “College English,” then access via the Social Science Premium collection (since it includes articles from 1988 through the present).

For example, to find articles on translingualism in this journal, you would access College English, then you might conduct a boolean search for multiple terms related to translingualism "translingual approach" OR "translingual orientation" OR "translingual literacy," which results in 29 articles within the journal.

College English (National Council of Teachers of English)
Articles on literature (including nonfiction), linguistics, literacy, critical theory, reading theory, rhetoric, composition, pedagogy and professional issues for English scholars working within subspecialties of the discipline. The principle journal of the NCTE College Section. Articles on teaching literature, literary theory, the history of the discipline, and teaching writing.

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Rhetoric and Composition Research Guide

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Main journals for the field of Writing & Rhetoric

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