The Journal of Writing Research

Journal of Writing Research

The Journal of Writing Research (JoWR) is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers that describe scientific studies of the processes by which writing is produced and or by which it can be effectively taught.

We are happy to consider papers from a range of research disciplines, including but not restricted to linguistics, psychology, and education, and using any appropriate and robust rigorously executed research method. We publish both original research and rigorous literature reviews.

Journal of Writing Research is double-blind peer-reviewed. It has a high rejection rate (above 90%), and good Scopus CiteScore rankings (top 20% in Education and top 5% in Language and Linguistics). The Journal of Writing Research is an open access journal (no reader fee - no author fee).

The mandate of the Journal of Writing Research is:

to publish excellent and innovative writing research drawn from a range of academic disciplines (e.g. psychology, linguistics, pedagogy, design studies, communication studies, information and communication technology, learning and teaching)

to stimulate interdisciplinary writing research

to be fully international

to apply high academic standards, including double blind peer review

to share knowledge through open access

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Writing Research is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality theoretical, empirical, and review papers covering the broad spectrum of writing research. The Journal primarily publishes papers that describe scientific studies of the processes by which writing is produced or the means by which writing can be effectively taught. The journal is inherently cross-disciplinary, publishing original research in the different domains of writing research.

The Journal of Writing Research is an open access journal (no reader fee - no author fee).

State-of-the-art research

The Journal of Writing Research aims to report state-of-the-art research and to provide a forum for established experts and emerging talent. The Journal of Writing Research is concerned with multiple perspectives on writing and acts as a reference for all those interested in the basics of writing processes and knowledge of written composition.

Multi-disciplinary

The Journal of Writing Research seeks to draw research from multiple scientific disciplines:

cognitive science

social, cognitive, developmental and educational psychology

psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics

psychiatry, clinical psychology, and counselling

anthropology

design studies

communication studies

information and communication technology

learning and teaching

curriculum development and instructional science

We do not publish papers that describe teaching practice but do not provide robust evidence of efficacy.

We will consider papers that are based solely on the analysis of written products (e.g., text-analytic studies of student or published texts), although these must offer insights into issues related to research in writing processes or writing pedagogy.

Editors

Luuk Van Waes, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Gert Rijlaarsdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands & University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Mark Torrance, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Charles MacArthur, University of Delaware, USA

Montserrat Castelló, Ramon Llull University, Spain