Assessing Writing

Assessing Writing is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the assessment of written language in language education. It was established in 1994, and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief are Martin East and David Slomp.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Applied linguistics journals
Second language acquisition	Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Applied Linguistics ITL – International Journal of Applied Linguistics Journal of Child Language Language Acquisition Language Learning Language Teaching Language Teaching Research Journal of Second Language Writing Reading and Writing Second Language Research Studies in Second Language Acquisition System TESOL Journal TESOL Quarterly The Language Learning Journal The Modern Language Journal Writing Systems Research Written Communication
Bilingualism and multilingualism	Bilingual Research Journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Bilingual Review International Multilingual Research Journal Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Language assessment	Language Assessment Quarterly Language Testing
Pragmatics	Discourse Processes International Review of Pragmatics Journal of Pragmatics Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
Language and gender	Gender and Language
Sociolinguistics	International Journal of the Sociology of Language Journal of Sociolinguistics Language in Society
Language policy	Language Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika
Contrastive linguistics	Languages in Contrast
Stylistics	Language and Literature

Second language writing
General	Second language writing
Subfields	Academic writing Composition studies Language complexity
Perspectives	Cognitive and linguistic theories of composition Dynamic Systems Theory Goal theory Rhetorical genre theory Sociocultural theory Systemic functional linguistics
Notable researchers	Bardovi-Harlig Crossley Cumming Hyland Ivanić Kormos Larsen-Freeman Manchón Matsuda Ortega Polio Schmitt Storch Verspoor Wray
Journals	Journal of Second Language Writing Language Learning Reading and Writing TESOL Quarterly The Modern Language Journal Writing Systems Research Written Communication
Associations	European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing European Second Language Association
Computational tools	Coh-Metrix L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer

Language Testing
Organization	International Language Testing Association Language Testing Research Colloquium
Annual conferences	Language Testing Research Colloquium
Publications	Language Assessment Quarterly Language Testing
ILTA's Lifetime Achievement Award	Carol Chapelle Alan Davies Lyle Bachman Bernard Spolsky John Clark Charles Alderson Elana Shohamy Carolyn Turner Cathie Elder Dan Douglas