Defining
the Writing Community
Jane Hansen (1987) described the concept of the writing community in the following manner:
The members of the writing community
rejoice in each other’s
accomplishments. We don’t withhold information from each other
because we
fear someone
else will do as well as we do. We share and others share with
us.
We want to
learn, and through sharing we know what others know. This
notion
of everyone as
a possessor of knowledge for everyone’s use differs from
previous
systems, which insisted each student keep to herself and which
also
established
hierarchies of haves and have nots . . . the community, a
collective of
diverse
information, underlies the success of the writing. (p. ?)
My hope is that we can create such a community in this class.
Hansen, J. (1987). Reference to be completed when my books are
unpacked.
Sorry.
