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Jiayu Wang; Cassi Liardét – Written Communication, 2025
This study examines how supervisor-candidate coauthoring collaborations contribute to doctoral students' writer identity. Three candidates' coauthorship experiences with their supervisors were investigated in depth using a multiple-case study design. Interviews, written reflections, and email correspondence between coauthors enabled thick…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Collaborative Writing, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Nissi, Riikka; Lehtinen, Esa – Written Communication, 2022
The present article examines collaborative writing in organizational consulting and training, where writing takes place as part of a group discussion assignment and is carried out by using digital writing technologies. In the training, the groups use digital tablets as their writing device in order to document their answers in the shared digital…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Computer Mediated Communication, Workplace Learning, Handheld Devices
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Zabihi, Reza; Bayan, Maryam – Written Communication, 2020
Research has shown that collaboratively produced texts are better in quality compared with individually written texts. However, no study has considered the role of collaboration in authorial voice, which is an essential element in current writing curricula. This study analyzes the effects of collaborative task performance in the quality of L2…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kalman, Judy – Written Communication, 1996
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)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Foreign Countries
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Markelis, Daiva – Written Communication, 2003
The emphasis on the individual in Western culture has blinded us to how social relationships affect literacy acquisition and, conversely, how literacy transforms these relationships. This article deals with the literacy practices, specifically, letter writing, of Lithuanian immigrants who arrived in the United States during the end of the 19th…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Collaborative Writing, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Bremner, Stephen – Written Communication, 2006
This article, using data from a year-long study of writing processes in an institutional context, looks at the demands made on writers in workplace environments as they make requests of their colleagues. Building on Brown and Levinson's politeness theory, the study takes a view of context as being a key factor in framing requests, in addition…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Writing Difficulties, Writing Processes, Authors