Community, collaboration, and the rhetorical triangle

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.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
1993-01-01
DOI
10.1080/10572259309364524
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  1. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
  2. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  3. Technical Communication Quarterly

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