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Wattpad - Online Influence
Research by Heather J. S. Birch shows that online writing communities like Wattpad help adolescent writers learn and grow their craft from constructive feedback and criticism. Birch composed a study of student's and their experiences on online writing platforms to see how constructive criticism effects their writing process. Most participants prefer serious feedback over subtle critiquing.

Wattpad as well as similar online writing communities help young authors build and construct their self perception as writers, as well as establishes an audience and interact with readers. It acts as a gateway into the publishing realm and offers hands-on experience with digital writing. This type of experience helps writers develop personal authorship.

Wattpad offers unique features that other writing platforms do not, like the interactive margin commenting. Readers can add comments and feedback by individual lines and paragraphs as they are reading rather than after the chapter or story is finished. These comment sections are available to all users and readers for reacting to the chapter, offering constructive feedback, or just for personal input, allowing readers to see what others are thinking and writers to see how readers are responding.