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"# Writing effectively is academically and professionally crucial for students, and helping them attain that skill is a major goal for writing instruction. # The social networking site Ning offers a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can help students learn to write as well as write to learn. # A small pilot in a University of Connecticut writing course demonstrated Ning's effectiveness in helping students write to learn."

"Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with Commentpress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog."