ABSTRACT
SITU A Tl NG WRITING In this chapter we describe briefly theories that we have studied and drawn on in different ways throughout the book. We said earlier that our perspective on writing was a social one and need to explain what we mean by that. That writing is social is not news. Of course it is used for social communication and learned from other people. But we have a stronger, less commonsensical sense of social in mind, one that we can perhaps indicate with the term situated.
