E-learning is a combination of learning services and technology that allow us to provide high value integrated learning any time, any place. It is about a new blend of resources, interactivity, performance support and structured learning activities. This methodology makes use of various types of technologies in order to enhance or transform the…

Emerging social writing platforms offer possibilities for language learners to collaborate around joint assignments. One such environment is the wiki, generally hosting two prominent modes of usage, web pages and discussion forums. This study investigates software engineering students' use of a wiki as an integrated tool within the frames of a…

Presents a detailed description of a scribe and his client in Mexico producing a letter through "joint composition," a term used to refer to letter-writing episodes involving two or more active participants. Shows how the participants negotiated their points of view and pooled their knowledge to produce a specific type of document. (PA)

To help business writers and writing teachers think more specifically about problems of writing collaboration, a study examined and analyzed a group writing project in the Auldouest Insurance Company (pseudonym) Department of Corporate Communication. The collaborative writing of the two page executive letter of the company's annual report involved…

Online discussion can be designed to develop the skills and confidence of students as well as providing an opportunity for constructing knowledge. If students decide not to participate or join too late, they put their own development and the quality of the learning community at risk. This article reflects on a first term undergraduate experience…

Examines journal articles published by academic librarians in Illinois. Findings show that women are publishing close to their numbers in the profession, more articles are being written collaboratively, they are published primarily in library and information science journals, and librarians at large universities are more likely to publish than…

Explores two cases of professional communication among United States and South American personnel in one multinational organization in Quito, Ecuador. Suggests that a mere taboo approach to teaching cross-cultural communication will not work. Finds that collaborative writing proved to be a good form of intercultural training for both United States…

Describes the arrangements for collaborative writing in an urban elementary classroom. Suggests a more complex view in contrast to typical descriptions of collaboration. Discusses a view that includes a range of ways for students to participate in writing together. Describes the ways students responded to opportunities for collaboration. (SG)

Describes how students in three college-level writing groups viewed their collaborative learning experience. Suggests that collaborative learning works (or does not work) in complex ways that cannot be reduced to a field manual of identifying behaviors. (RS)

Argues that any writer writes with and against a cacophony of competing voices, thus collaborating with the Otherness of their own words. Studies one student's attempt to write on an issue about which she held multiple views. Considers how the writing center might aid in providing critical distance within such a model. (HB)

Describes how a poet at work in a mental hospital can help chronic patients recapture the use of language and expressiveness by teaching poetry. Describes methods of collaborative poetry writing, as well as the rationale for the use of the approach. Discusses a variety of cases and methods. (RS)

A study examined the nature of interactions that occurred among the participants of a two-year collaborative writing project with a particular focus on the manner in which they "positioned" one another. Subjects were three students (who were all in the sixth grade at the start of the study and in eighth grade at the end) who had…

Presents a case study of a year-long collaboration over the Internet between a systems analyst from Sweden and a technical communicator from the United States that resulted in a conference paper. Describes the progress of the collaboration, the major difficulties encountered, and the authors' conclusion about its success. Suggests how to improve…

The authors report on an interpretive case study that investigated how three elementary teachers summatively assessed their own students' written work over a three and one-half month period. Their collaborative assessment sessions reflected their ongoing routines that created productive social spaces that sowed the seeds for transformational adult…

A case study examined the collaborative experiences of students in an online business writing classroom. The purpose was to examine the same groups of students working on collaborative writing assignments in both a synchronous (real-time) and an asynchronous (non-real-time) discussion forum. This study focused on examining the amount, pattern, and…