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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Lecturer, Language Tutor, and Student Perspectives on the Ethics of the Proofreading of Student Writing	34
Effects of Online Professional Development on First-Grade Writing Instruction: Coaching plus Manual Improves Teachers’ Implementation, Confidence, and Students’ Writing Quality	19
Reflections-on-Action: Using Critical Disability Studies to Reconceptualize the Net Work of Social Work Students in Interprofessional Simulations	18
The Role of Executive Function in an Integrated Writing Task	15
A Rhetorical Content Analysis of Moroccan Regional Agronomic Abstracts: Textual Practices of Plurilingual Science Communication	14
From Methodology to Method in Genre-Based Ethnographies	13
Embedding Explicit Linguistic Instruction in an SRSD Writing Intervention	12
Tracing Discursive Turbulence as Intra-active Pedagogical Change and Becoming	10
Tracing the Influences of Praxis on the Development of an Open Corequisite Writing Textbook	10
Decoding Metadiscourse Markers in Estonian Academic Texts: A Language-Specific Perspective	10
Threshold Genres: A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship Through the Patient SOAP Note	10
Pragmatic Competence in an Email Writing Task: Influences of Situation, L1 Background, and L2 Proficiency	10
Confronting the Challenges of Undergraduates’ Argumentation Writing in a “Learning How to Learn” Course	9
A Direct Functional Measure of Text Quality: Did the Reader Understand?	9
Do Written Language Bursts Mediate the Relations of Language, Cognitive, and Transcription Skills to Writing Quality?	9
Addressing an Unfulfilled Expectation: Teaching Students With Disabilities to Write Scientific Arguments	9
Pocket Writing: How Adolescents’ Self-Sponsored Writing Circulates in School	8
Situating Evaluation and Authority: Direct Sponsorship in Letters of Recommendation	8
One Fourth-Grader’s Orchestration of Modes Through Comic Composition	8
Moderated Mediating Effect of Writing Self-Regulation Strategies on Writing Scores	8
Notions About Drafts in Scientific Research Articles: A Case Study With Writers at Different Levels of Expertise	8
Rethinking Translingualism in College Composition Classrooms: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Multilingual Students’ Written Communication Across Contexts	8
Writing and Reading Qualitative Characters	7
“Everything Is in the Lab Book”: Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre Analysis of Symbolic Mediation in Medical Physics	7
Editor’s Note	6

A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Students’ Essays in Italian High Schools: Trends in Length, Complexity, and Referencing	6
Erratum to Wreading on Online Literature Platforms	6
Editor’s Note	6
Exploring the Move Structure and Interdiscursive Strategies in Leader Messages in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports of Chinese and U.S. Corporations	6
Move-Structure Analysis of Police Written Witness Statements in Ghana: An Account of a Context-Defining Police Discourse	6
How Does the Language Control of L1 and L2 Writers Develop Over Time in First-Year Composition?	6
Understandings of the Role of the One-to-One Writing Tutor in a U.K. University Writing Centre: Multiple Perspectives	6
Prolepsis and Rendering Futures in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports	5
“In a Matter of Hours We Could Corral the Whole City”: How a Women’s Group Used a Half-Page Leaflet to Mobilize the Montgomery Bus Boycott	5
Model as Missed Opportunity for Writing Transfer During Career Change	5
Writing Storybooks as Storytelling: A Case Study of Two Families with Refugee Backgrounds	5
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
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
Self-Regulated Strategy Development With and Without Peer Interaction: Improving High School Students’ L2 Persuasive Essay Revisions	4
Ownership, Accuracy, and Aesthetics: University Writers’ Perceptions of GenAI Poetry	4
When the Truth Doesn’t Seem to Matter: The Affordances of Disciplinary Argument in the Era of Post-truth	4
The Topoi of Small Business Entrepreneurship	4
The Language Demands of Analytical Reading and Writing at School	4
Uses of Metadiscourse in Online Help	3
“The World Has to Stop Discriminating Against African American Language” (AAL): Exploring the Language Ideologies of AAL-Speaking Students in College Writing	3
Beyond Surfaces and Depths: An SFL Analysis of Fine Gradations of Meaning in Undergraduates’ Writing About Literature	3
Responding to Supervisory Feedback: Mediated Positioning in Thesis Writing	3
Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies	3
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	2
Examining Longitudinal and Concurrent Links Between Writing Motivation and Writing Quality in Middle School	2
“A Lot of Students Are Already There”: Repositioning Language-Minoritized Students as “Writers in Residence” in English Classrooms	2
Variation in Linguistic Stance: A Person-Centered Analysis of Student Writing	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
A Systematic Review on Inquiry-Based Writing Instruction in Tertiary Settings	1
The Structure of Argumentative Texts Written by Hebrew Speaking Children in Primary Schools: Relationships Between Writing and Reading Comprehension	1
Gateways to a Different World of Meaning: Expanding Theme Use in Primary-Aged Children’s Writing	1
Writing in Virtual Reality: Understanding Invention, Collaboration, and Friction in Hybrid Spaces	1
Editors’ Note	1
Historical Argumentation: Watching Historians and Teaching Youth	1
Virtual Reality and Embodiment in Multimodal Meaning Making	1
The Contributions of Student-Level and Classroom-Level Factors for Australian Grade 2 Students’ Writing Performance	1
Humanistic Knowledge-Making and the Rhetoric of Literary Criticism: Special Topoi Meet Rhetorical Action	1
Getting to “the Upper End of the Novice Zone”: An Exploration of Doctoral Students’ Writer Identity in Coauthoring With Supervisors for Publication	1
The Teaching of Writing Across the Curriculum in School Years 4-6 in Sweden	1
Writing Process Feedback Based on Keystroke Logging and Comparison With Exemplars: Effects on the Quality and Process of Synthesis Texts	1
Wreading on Online Literature Platforms	1
Women Scientists’ Digitally Mediated Activity, Genres and Digital Tools: A Cross-sectional Survey Across the Disciplines	1
Digital Documenting Practices: Collaborative Writing in Workplace Training	1
Exploring the Interpersonal Functions of Negation in Science Writing Across 35 Years	1
Digitally Mediated Micro-processes of Novice Multilingual Writers: Textualization in Focus	1
Editors’ Note	1
Attitudes and Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Writing in Costa Rican Students	1

The Heartbeat of Poetry: Student Videomaking in Response to Poetry