Editor: Lynn Worsham
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: JAC, according to their website, “provides a forum for scholars interested in theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary study of rhetoric, writing, culture, and politics [...with] four book-length issues a year, featuring articles, interviews, essays, review essays, and reviews. ” While this journal did start off as explicitly writing-based, [...]
Journal Analysis #5: JAC
Journal Analysis #4: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Editor: Gregory Clark
Publication Schedule: Um, quarterly?
Purpose and Scope: RSQ is the journal for the Rhetoric Society of America. The journal covers a wide array of topics in rhetoric, alternating history, pedagogy, theory, and criticism. Submissions are blind reviewed and required to “exhibit high standards of professional scholarship,” per their website.
Audience: Their website explicitly lists students [...]
Journal Analysis #3: Rhetorica
Editor: Harvey Yunis
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: Rhetorica is published for the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. It includes, according to their website, “book reviews and bibliographies that examine the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages and their relationship with poetics, philosophy, religion and law.” The journal is multilingual, but [...]
Journal Analysis #2: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Editor: Mary Hawkesworth
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: Signs has a lengthy and interesting statement of their Editorial Vision on their website, part of which I’ll excerpt here: “Signs publishes pathbreaking work in interdisciplinary feminist scholarship that challenges the boundaries of knowledge concerning women’s and men’s lives, gender relations, sexualities, raced and gendered practices, institutions, cultural [...]
Journal Analysis #1–Rhetoric Review
Editor: Theresa Enos
Publication Schedule: Quarterly
Purpose and Scope: As stated on their site, “Rhetoric Review is a scholarly interdisciplinary journal publishing in all areas of rhetoric and writing and providing a professional forum for its readers to consider and discuss current topics and issues. The journal publishes manuscripts that explore the breadth and depth of the [...]
