Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
Common Core State Standards, Grades 11-12, Writing · Read it at the source · Checked October 14, 2026
What W.11-12.6 Means in Plain English
Seniors treat published writing as a living piece: they put it online, read the comments and data that follow, and revise in the open. A class explainer on a rental rule gets a dated update when new city figures arrive, and a reader’s new argument gets answered, not deleted.
Grades 9 to 10 (W.9-10.6) publish and update shared work, using links and flexible displays. Grades 11 to 12 make the update answer to readers: ongoing feedback, new arguments and new information. This is the last band, the college and career readiness goal for writing with technology.
W.11-12.6 I Can Statements
I can publish writing online, on my own or with a group.
I can revise a published piece when readers bring new information.
I can answer a new argument in an update readers can trace.
W.11-12.6 Worked Example
Two days after a civics class published its explainer, one reader posted the city’s new count and another raised a new argument. Two ways the class could respond.
Prompt
Your civics class runs an online explainer on Bellamy’s proposal to cap short-term rentals in the Millrace neighborhood at 40 homes. Two days after publishing, you get two comments. One links the city’s new housing report: 118 Millrace homes are now listed as short-term rentals, not the 75 your article cited from last year’s report. The other, from a bakery owner, argues that visitors staying in those rentals bring her shop about a third of its summer sales. Update the article.
Not YetEDIT: someone said our number was wrong, so we changed it to 118. Also, some businesses might like rentals. The rest of the article is the same.The number changed and nothing else did: the paragraphs built on 75 rentals still draw conclusions from it, the bakery owner’s argument gets a one-line aside, and readers who saw the first version cannot tell what changed or why. That is a correction, not an update in response to feedback.
Meets the StandardUpdated October 9, after reader comments: an earlier version cited 75 short-term rentals in Millrace from last year’s housing report, and the city’s new report, linked here, counts 118. At 118, the proposed cap of 40 would require 78 homes to stop renting to visitors, more than twice the number our first version described, so we rewrote the section on who would be affected. A reader who owns a bakery on Weir Street raised an argument we had not covered: visitors staying in those rentals bring her shop about a third of its summer sales. We added a section on local businesses, linked her comment, invited other owners to share their figures and asked the city’s tourism office for spending data. The original paragraphs remain in the revision history at the bottom of the page, so readers can compare versions. We will update this article again after the council votes on November 12.The update is dated and says exactly what changed and who prompted it, the new number flows through to the conclusions it affects, and the reader’s argument becomes a new section instead of an aside. The links, the revision history and the promised next update use what the technology can do to keep a shared piece current and accountable.
Moves to Use
Date every update and say what changed and who prompted it.Follow a corrected fact through every conclusion that depended on it.Treat a new argument as content: add a section, not a reply.Keep earlier versions visible so readers can compare.
Common Mistakes with W.11-12.6
The silent fix
The figure quietly changes from 75 to 118 with no note
Try this: Require a dated update line at the top of any revised post, naming what changed and the source that changed it.
Changing the fact but not the reasoning
A new number in paragraph one and the old conclusion in paragraph four
Try this: Have students search the post for every sentence that relied on the old figure and revise each one before republishing.
Answering only in the comments
“Thanks for the input!” under a reader’s argument, and an article that never mentions it
Try this: Ask students to decide whether each comment changes the piece, and when it does, to revise the article itself.
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What two kinds of feedback does the class receive, and how does the strong update handle each?
New information, the city’s count of 118, which is dated, linked and carried into the affected section; and a new argument from the bakery owner, which becomes a new section.
Why does the corrected number require more than one change?
The cap’s effect depends on it: with 118 listings, 78 homes would have to stop renting to visitors instead of 35, so every conclusion about who is affected changes.
What does the strong update use technology to do that print could not?
Link the new report and the reader’s comment, keep a revision history readers can compare, and promise another update after the council vote.