Composition and rhetoric as scholarly fields
Scholarship in composition and rhetoric is rich and varied, ranging from studies of rhetorical principles in Ancient Greece to discourse analyses of Instant Messages. Compositionists explore, for example, how people compose texts, how they attempt to revise those texts, and what effects those texts have on their writers and the world around them. By raising questions about literacy, compositionists interrogate issues of beauty and truth, institutional access, and, ultimately, power.
The following journals provide a more comprehensive introduction to issues in composition and rhetoric:
College Composition and Communication
College English
Composition Studies
Computers and Composition
Kairos
Journal of Advanced Composition
Research in the Teaching of English
Technical Communication Quarterly
Writing Center Journal
The Writing Instructor
The Writing Lab Newsletter
Writing on the Edge