Collaborative Writing – some considerations

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What is collaborative writing?

‘an inventive process and reflexive relationship through which two or more writers synthesize their individual perspectives to create a new, shared voice through which to compose texts … three basic qualities … reflexive dialogue … invention – [creation of texts to explore ideas] …continuity …’ (Duffy and Pell, 2013: 251

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Why might this matter?

• Collaboration is here to stay (including massive collaborative writing project – OED, Wikipedia)

• Value of togetherness and community (as an antidote to individualism?)

• Value of shared meaning making for learning – ‘writing as a medium for thinking, for the growth and exchange of ideas’ (Restaino, 2014: 9)

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Briefly, we will have the opportunity to:

•try some collaborative composition•reflect on collaborative writing•consider advantages and concerns around collaborative writing•consider some models of collaborative writing.

Trying collaborative composition

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Free writing

• Writing for five minutes

• Without stopping

• In sentences• For no reader• Without

structure.

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Try free writing to a prompt‘From today, and from previous experience, one of

the things that strikes me about collaborative composition/writing is …’

Remember • Writing for five minutes• Without stopping• In sentences• For no reader• Without structure.

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Brainstorming

Most ideas!

Advantages?

Concerns?

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Shapes and Models • Peer Review?• Writers’

Groups/Retreats/residencies/spaces

• Lead writing (sequential) – first draft

• Turn writing (parallel) – separate sections

• Side-by-side (reciprocal) writing

Technology in this?