Good afternoon, folks
Mya Poe and I are very pleased to announce that our Written Communication special issue on Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Community and Workplace Writing Research is now available as Issue 43.3, July 2026.
This issue features an exceptional array of shorter-form methodological interventions for contexts both understudied and evolving: excellent reading for your next project and your next research-methods syllabus. Feast your eyes on this lineup:
- Seeking Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Age of Data Scraping: The Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP) — Ellen Cushman
- Community Inter-Autoethnography: A Methodology for Community-Level Understanding — David I. Hanauer
- Untold Pushbacks: Synthesizing Discourse-Based and Phenomenological Interviewing to Explore Tacit Knowledges of Black and Latinx Writers — Ray Rosas
- Developing an Integrated Logging Method for Process-Based Assessment and Feedback in Technical Writing — Lin Dong
- Fostering Community Through Participatory Translation and Design in Multilingual Writing Research — Laura Gonzales
- Mobile Methodology: Mapping Entrepreneur Abeer Abu Ghaith’s Repertoires of Resistance in the Palestinian Startup Ecosystem — Steven Fraiberg, Arees Bishara, and Aseel Khatib
- Toward a Sociohistorical Writing Ethnography: Community Writing as History-Making — Stacie Klinowski
- Genres Fall Apart: Recuperating the Centrifugal in Rhetorical Genre Analysis — Rebecca Lorimer Leonard and Angela Rounsaville
- Categorizing Human Identity in Writing Research: A Case for Participant Self-Identification in the Disaggregation of Data — Jennifer Burke Reifman
- Beyond Co- Regulation: Interplay as a Methodological Framework for Examining Self-Regulation in Generative AI-Assisted Writing — Ryan Roderick and Susan Tanner
- Leveraging Human-Centered Design and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Rural Healthcare: Wicked Problems, Design Thinking, and Mutable Methodologies — Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Thomas Rickert, Paul Thompson Hunter, and Adrianna Deptula
- Tuning In: Rhetorical Attunement as a Methodological Practice for Collaborative Research — Amber Hedquist, Liliana Caughman, and Claire Lauer
- Expanding Community-Engaged Research Through Eye Tracking — Kathryn Lambrecht
- Finding Problems: Before Gathering and Analyzing Data — Charles Bazerman
Enjoy summer, and as always, feel free to reach out to wcxeditors to let us know what you’re working on,
Dylan Dryer & Mya Poe, Coeditors
Written Communication