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What Experienced Collaborators Say About Collaborative Writing

Purdue University

Dianne Atkinson

Purdue University

Meg Morgan

Purdue University

Teresa Moore

Purdue University

Craig Snow

Purdue University

As currently used, collaboration refers to a variety of interactive writing expe riences, making it difficult or impossible to assess research projects accurately or to use their findings effectively. This paper presents a definition of one vari ety of interactive writing based on intensive interviews with twenty collaborative writers. Shared-document collaboration involves collaborators producing a shared document, engaging in substantive interaction about that document, and sharing decision-making power and responsibility for it. The paper also describes a typology of shared-document collaborative groups: labor intensive, specialization, and synthesis. Throughout, conclusions are supported with examples drawn from the experiences of the writers inter viewed.

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Vol. 1, No. 2, 70-90 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/105065198700100206


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