Collaborative Writing

Based on Wikipedia, the term collaborative writing refers to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. Some project are overseen by an editor or editorial team, but many grow without any oversight. Collaborative writing is also an approach for teaching novice authors to write. Collaborative or team writing is the process of producing a written work as a group where all team members contributed to the content and the decisions about how the group will function. Group assignments can be difficult for many adults students with busy schedules because they require planning, coordination, and frequent communication with other students.

For group writing projects, planning is especially important because written tend to write in solitude from established pans and directions. When a group agrees on the natural and scope of the writing project and develops an agreed-to plan or outline, responsibilities are clear. When due dates are met, the work stays on schedule. A writing plan should include the following:

1. Description of the final project
2. Criteria for success
3. Content outline
4. Assignment of responsibilities for section of content
5. Schedule for finishing parts
6. Editing and reviewing strategy
7. Producing information

Learning to collaborate in a team project is an invaluable skill to have in today's workplace. Although many students will benefit by this experience, many will struggle to participate successfully. It's in everyone's interest to have a strong have a strong project team. By following these guidelines, your collaborative team project can be successful.

I have learned collaborative writing in my CALL class. In this class, we used Google Documents. Google Docs brings our documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help our easily format text and paragraphs. In collaborative writing task, I choose role as a Content Facilitator. As the content facilitator, my role is to lead and encourage my group to start constructing the essay. My contribution in this writing learning task was not many more, but overall I have helped my group to do essay argumentation.

I as a teacher in the future think that the program is so useful and I also could use this method to my students in the future. My experience taught me to improve my skills in every skill and I want my students have the same experience like me.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_writing
http://commons.hostos.cuny.edu/wac/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2012/07/collaborative.pdf