OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Written Communication is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of Online Professional Development on First-Grade Writing Instruction: Coaching plus Manual Improves Teachers’ Implementation, Confidence, and Students’ Writing Quality	33
Lecturer, Language Tutor, and Student Perspectives on the Ethics of the Proofreading of Student Writing	18
The Role of Executive Function in an Integrated Writing Task	15
Tracing the Influences of Praxis on the Development of an Open Corequisite Writing Textbook	12
Reflections-on-Action: Using Critical Disability Studies to Reconceptualize the Net Work of Social Work Students in Interprofessional Simulations	12
A Rhetorical Content Analysis of Moroccan Regional Agronomic Abstracts: Textual Practices of Plurilingual Science Communication	11
Tracing Discursive Turbulence as Intra-active Pedagogical Change and Becoming	10
From Methodology to Method in Genre-Based Ethnographies	10
Embedding Explicit Linguistic Instruction in an SRSD Writing Intervention	10
Pragmatic Competence in an Email Writing Task: Influences of Situation, L1 Background, and L2 Proficiency	9
Do Written Language Bursts Mediate the Relations of Language, Cognitive, and Transcription Skills to Writing Quality?	9
Threshold Genres: A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship Through the Patient SOAP Note	9
Decoding Metadiscourse Markers in Estonian Academic Texts: A Language-Specific Perspective	9
Addressing an Unfulfilled Expectation: Teaching Students With Disabilities to Write Scientific Arguments	8
A Direct Functional Measure of Text Quality: Did the Reader Understand?	8
Confronting the Challenges of Undergraduates’ Argumentation Writing in a “Learning How to Learn” Course	8
“Everything Is in the Lab Book”: Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre Analysis of Symbolic Mediation in Medical Physics	7
One Fourth-Grader’s Orchestration of Modes Through Comic Composition	7
Situating Evaluation and Authority: Direct Sponsorship in Letters of Recommendation	7
Moderated Mediating Effect of Writing Self-Regulation Strategies on Writing Scores	7
Rethinking Translingualism in College Composition Classrooms: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Multilingual Students’ Written Communication Across Contexts	7
Pocket Writing: How Adolescents’ Self-Sponsored Writing Circulates in School	7
A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Students’ Essays in Italian High Schools: Trends in Length, Complexity, and Referencing	6
How Does the Language Control of L1 and L2 Writers Develop Over Time in First-Year Composition?	6
Writing and Reading Qualitative Characters	6

Editor’s Note	6
Move-Structure Analysis of Police Written Witness Statements in Ghana: An Account of a Context-Defining Police Discourse	5
Erratum to Wreading on Online Literature Platforms	5
Understandings of the Role of the One-to-One Writing Tutor in a U.K. University Writing Centre: Multiple Perspectives	5
Editor’s Note	5
Prolepsis and Rendering Futures in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports	5
The Language Demands of Analytical Reading and Writing at School	4
Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies	4
Dead Reckoning: A Framework for Analyzing Positionality Statements in Ethnographic Research Reporting	4
Examining the Impact of a Cognitive Strategies Approach on the Argument Writing of Mainstreamed English Learners in Secondary School	4
Writing Storybooks as Storytelling: A Case Study of Two Families with Refugee Backgrounds	4
Self-Regulated Strategy Development With and Without Peer Interaction: Improving High School Students’ L2 Persuasive Essay Revisions	4
Beyond Surfaces and Depths: An SFL Analysis of Fine Gradations of Meaning in Undergraduates’ Writing About Literature	4
The Topoi of Small Business Entrepreneurship	4
Linguistic Features of Secondary School Writing: Can Natural Language Processing Shine a Light on Differences by Sex, English Language Status, or Higher Scoring Essays?	4
When the Truth Doesn’t Seem to Matter: The Affordances of Disciplinary Argument in the Era of Post-truth	4
Uses of Metadiscourse in Online Help	4
Ownership, Accuracy, and Aesthetics: University Writers’ Perceptions of GenAI Poetry	4
Does ChatGPT Write Like a Student? Engagement Markers in Argumentative Essays	3
On the Page and Off the Page: Adolescents’ Collaborative Writing in an After-School Spoken-Word Poetry Team	3
“The World Has to Stop Discriminating Against African American Language” (AAL): Exploring the Language Ideologies of AAL-Speaking Students in College Writing	3
Responding to Supervisory Feedback: Mediated Positioning in Thesis Writing	3
Variation in Linguistic Stance: A Person-Centered Analysis of Student Writing	3
Editors’ Note	2
“A Lot of Students Are Already There”: Repositioning Language-Minoritized Students as “Writers in Residence” in English Classrooms	2
Prompting Reflection: Using Corpus Linguistic Methods in the Local Assessment of Reflective Writing	2
Social Positioning and Learning Opportunities in One Student’s Textual Transition to College Writing	2
Examining Longitudinal and Concurrent Links Between Writing Motivation and Writing Quality in Middle School	2
Writing Process Feedback Based on Keystroke Logging and Comparison With Exemplars: Effects on the Quality and Process of Synthesis Texts	1
Historical Argumentation: Watching Historians and Teaching Youth	1
Virtual Reality and Embodiment in Multimodal Meaning Making	1
Women Scientists’ Digitally Mediated Activity, Genres and Digital Tools: A Cross-sectional Survey Across the Disciplines	1
Exploring the Interpersonal Functions of Negation in Science Writing Across 35 Years	1
Getting to “the Upper End of the Novice Zone”: An Exploration of Doctoral Students’ Writer Identity in Coauthoring With Supervisors for Publication	1
Gateways to a Different World of Meaning: Expanding Theme Use in Primary-Aged Children’s Writing	1
Wreading on Online Literature Platforms	1
Digital Documenting Practices: Collaborative Writing in Workplace Training	1
“God’s Absence During Trauma Took Its Toll”: Dialogic Tracing of Literate Activity and Lifespan Trajectories of Semiotic (Un)becoming	1
Writing in Virtual Reality: Understanding Invention, Collaboration, and Friction in Hybrid Spaces	1
Digitally Mediated Micro-processes of Novice Multilingual Writers: Textualization in Focus	1
Editors’ Note	1
A Systematic Review on Inquiry-Based Writing Instruction in Tertiary Settings	1
Humanistic Knowledge-Making and the Rhetoric of Literary Criticism: Special Topoi Meet Rhetorical Action	1
Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage	1
The Teaching of Writing Across the Curriculum in School Years 4-6 in Sweden	1