Through collaborative textual exchange, readers and writers construct their collectivity, negotiating beliefs, values and actions. Many disciplines today share and develop this perspective on the creation of knowledge in communities, suggesting that social life is essentially a rhetorical process. Current trends in composition reflect the community building idea. They build writing communities, sharing and correcting each other's writings. Formulaic and purposeless composition assignments decrease as writing instruction accommodates new modes, such as hypertext sequencing, and new forms, like web pages.
Writing is used to build communities in the classroom and in society.
Used to formulate and share ideas, the ability to write well forms the foundation of a growing and evolving society. Metahphors, Models and Maxims for Writing Teachers. The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing. This is the HelpUWrite homepage. Last Revised 30th of October 2000.