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Toward a Sociohistorical Writing Ethnography: Community Writing as History-Making

Written Communication: An International Quarterly of Research, Theory, and Application

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Abstract

Written Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 742-759, July 2026.
This article makes the case for studying community writing using sociohistorical writing ethnography, an approach that combines ethnographic and historical research methods to produce “deep theorizing” about present writing activities grounded in felt ...