Title:  College Composition and Communication

Editor:  Deborah H. Holdstein, Columbia College Chicago

Publication Information:  Part of NCTE, CCC is a journal focusing on teaching and scholarship exclusively at the college level.  It publishes articles on the field of composition studies which range from pedagogy issues to rhetorical analysis.  Broad in scope, it uses a wide range of humanistic methods from many disciplines, and supports sub-disciplines within composition studies, such as technology and writing, composition history, basic writing, WAC, etc.  CCC is often referred to as the flagship journal for rhetoric and composition.  Wide range readership, very diverse, as it includes scholars within the field and outside the composition field as well.  Submissions must be “clearly relevant to the work of college writing teachers and responsive to recent scholarship in composition studies” (“CCC submission information”).  Published quarterly.  Subscription fee:  $75 nonmember, $25 with NCTE membership, $7.50 student membership.

Availability:  Hard copies from 1950-present available, online database of articles (JSTOR III) available from 1950-2003.

Analysis:  Generally this is a very accessible journal, printing useful scholarship that is quite representative of the field.  One big positive to this journal is its diversity, it is able to adequately represent the ever-increasing scope of the rhet/comp field.  It is conscious of its prominent place in the field, and attempts to engage scholars in conversations going on, in special sections of the journal.