John Swales listed the six characteristics that qualify groups as discourse communities. Here's why they matter and how to understand them.

Writing requires visual literacies, which too often go unacknowledged. Students need to learn about readability and effective document design.

Writing is a human invention that allows humans to connect and shape ideas. Removing the personal element (esp. with ChatGPT) ruins writing.

Children develop their primary literacy at home and secondary literacies at school. Here’s how technology complicates that process.

Beyond merely conveying information, writing has many functions, many of which benefit the author, not just the audience. See how it works.

When we allow our platforms and devices to make decisions for us, we give up our agency and lose control of our lives. How can we resist?

Assignments challenge students to find creative solutions to complex problems. Here's why that's good and how to embrace the challenge.

Participation often terrifies introverted students. But they actually offer three unique contributions to class. Learn how here.

I discuss how running or executing text influence my understanding and implementation of rhetoric. It's a conversation about “techknowledgey”.

In digital spaces, platform developers and social groups form the available rhetoric. Design choices create social pressures for online writing.