Community, collaboration, and the rhetorical triangle

1 January 1993

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Technical Communication Quarterly

Vol. 2 (1) , 63-74
https://doi.org/10.1080/10572259309364524

Abstract

Although “community”; is an important concept for writing, writers have been unclear about how a sense of community relates to the writing process or to the documents produced. This study reports a comparison of several technical reports showing the influences of a writer's identification with a community on features of the resulting document. Features most affected were personal and community references within the document, writer's stance toward the reader, and definition of the rhetorical problem.

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