Email, Usenet news, gophers, ftp, WWW are all integrated in one single system. This facilitates global information exchange, accumulation of knowledge and portability. In addition to obtaining plenty of authentic learning materials and samples of writing of the real world, the Internet provides students opportunities to publish worldwide. This does not only boost their motivation to write carefully and professionally. It also provides them a real audience to write for and thus emphasizing the importance of reader analysis.
Writing is no longer a private act for teacher's grading.
They are able to obtain peer feedback, interact with one another's text through email or electronic discussion groups. In all, a Technical Communications course without an Internet component would be incomplete, or even outdated. Whenever you communicate, you convey information. How you shape this information is the key to technical communication. The edge of knowledge for us in writing instruction is moving fast and we need new and better ways of at least staying within sight of it.