reading about writing

in one class we're focusing on learning about the writing process(es). It's so strange to read articles from the 1980's where we were still debating whether the culture we were raised in impacted our writing. then as colleges became more racially diverse we realized that different cultural backgrounds created writers with access to different writing styles. it was such a novel concept. today it seems so obvious. now, we see writing as still evolving, as becoming a way for writers to organize ideas, to think out ideas, to participate in their culture, to learn about other cultures, to critically engage. writing has taken on a participatory tone, again making it more difficult to teach the importance of situational writing, especially academic writing. what's really important in all this, though, is thinking of blogging. bloggers are not just putting content out there into infinite cyberspace, they are thinking through ideas, working through culturally based language, separating themselves even further from academic writing. the imagined audience we're writing to as bloggers really is imagined. so how do we try to teach real audience to freshmen composition students who have only been imagining audiences as bloggers?