The Importance of Group Development (continued)
Their experience communicating with group members online allows them to read and reread communication as necessary in order to understand and respond to one another. Hewett also noted that students have the opportunity to save posts that their peers make to use them as a prompt for further responses and review (284). As they put this kind of contemplation into their writing, students begin to internalize considerations about audience and purpose when they write because they have become part of a group that forms their audience.
