Relay Writing in an Adolescent Online Community

Abstract

“Welcome to Buckeye City” is an adolescent online community that was maintained by 25 Korean students who attended American schools. On the website, the students engaged in “relay writing”—a writing activity in which each person contributed a portion of an evolving story in a relayed manner. Relay writing offers teachers a new and valuable window into online literacy as well as adolescent literacy practices beyond school. The activity can help teachers understand adolescents' composing activities in voluntary (i.e., out‐of‐school) circumstances.