Written Communication (journal)

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 1.9.{{cite book |year=2023 |chapter=Written Communication |title=2022 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Social Sciences |via=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}

Written Communication was established in October 1984 with Stephen P. Witte and John Daly as its founding editors.{{Cite journal |last=Witte |first=Stephen P. |date=1989 |title=Editor's Note: Milestone, Transition, Etc. |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0741088389006001001 |journal=Written Communication |language=en |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=3–9 |doi=10.1177/0741088389006001001 |issn=0741-0883}} While Daly ceased working with the publication in 1989,{{Cite web |date=August 2018 |title=John Daly, CV |url=https://moody.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2022-09/daly-john.pdf#:~:text=Founding%20Co%2DEditor%2C%20Written%20Communication%20(1983%2D1989).%20Editor%2C%20Communication%20Education%20(1985%2D1987). |access-date=29 November 2024 |page=13 |format=PDF |via=Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas}} Witte remained chief editor until his death in 2004.{{Cite journal |last=Bracewell |first=Robert J. |date=2005 |title=Stephen P. Witte: (1943-2004) A Brief Biography |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0741088305274780 |journal=Written Communication |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=124–126 |doi=10.1177/0741088305274780 |issn=0741-0883|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |last=Haswell |first=Rich |date=2004 |title=In Memoriam: Stephen P. Witte (1943-2004): Ahead of Us |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/220699711 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=College Composition and Communication|id={{ProQuest|220699711}} }} Following Daly's departure, Witte worked alongside others at different periods of the journal's history, including Roger D. Cherry and Keith Walters of Ohio State University and Deborah Brandt and Martin Nystrand of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.{{Cite journal |last=Witte |first=Stephen P. |date=2003 |title=Editor's Note: Reflections, Refractions |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0741088303253861 |journal=Written Communication |language=en |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=3–6 |doi=10.1177/0741088303253861 |issn=0741-0883|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Brandt |first=Deborah |date=2002 |title=Introductions and Conclusions |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/074108830201900101 |journal=Written Communication |language=en |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=3–4 |doi=10.1177/074108830201900101 |issn=0741-0883|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Brandt |first1=Deborah |last2=Nystrand |first2=Martin |date=1998 |title=A Fifteenth Anniversary Tribute to Stephen P. Witte, Founding Editor |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0741088398015003002 |journal=Written Communication |language=en |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=279–280 |doi=10.1177/0741088398015003002 |issn=0741-0883|url-access=subscription }}

Following Witte's death from glioblastoma multiforme, his surviving wife, Christina Haas of the University of Minnesota, took over the editorship of the journal.{{Cite journal |last=Haas |first=Christina |date=2004 |title=Editor's Note |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0741088304268804 |journal=Written Communication |language=en |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=315 |doi=10.1177/0741088304268804 |issn=0741-0883|url-access=subscription }} Chad Wickman of Auburn University served as the editor-in-chief from 2017 to the end of 2022; the last issue he oversaw was published in March 2023.{{Cite journal |last=Wickman |first=Chad |date=2023 |title=Editor's Note |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07410883221150937 |journal=Written Communication |language=en |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=287–288 |doi=10.1177/07410883221150937 |issn=0741-0883}} Since January 2023, the journal has been co-edited by Dylan Dryer (University of Maine) and Mya Poe (Northeastern University).

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