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Knox-Quinn, Carolyn – College Composition and Communication, 1990
Recounts a conversation with author Ken Kesey. Describes a year-long graduate writing course in which Kesey and his students collaborated on a novel. Explains how the novel was written and how characters and plot were developed. Suggests that, if available to the class, computers would have simplified the writing. (SG)
Descriptors: Authors, Collaborative Writing, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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Wray, David; Medwell, Jane – Reading, 1989
Examines the learning benefits which may accrue from using desk-top publishing techniques with children, especially in terms of the development of literacy skills. Analyzes desk-top publishing as an extension of word processing and describes some ways of using desk-top publishing in the classroom. (RS)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Desktop Publishing, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Wray, David – 1999
The commonest context for the use of word processors with primary school children is collaborative small group work. The two major reasons for this organizational decision are resource-based (i.e. due to the scarcity of computers in the classroom) and educational, stemming from an increased use of cooperative learning methods. In order to improve…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Heap, James L. – 1987
Based on an examination of the organizational features of editing during collaborative computer writing in a combined first and second grade classroom in a Catholic school during the 1985-86 school year, this paper argues that there is a fundamental difference between collaborative and solo computer writing, and that collaboration during computer…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Editing, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics
Houston, Linda S. – 1990
Collaborative learning in the English classroom actively involves students in learning many useful applications of writing skills for use in future careers. In the work place, for instance, collaboration takes place regularly and group skills are of major importance. Job-related writing involves many forms of collaboration from the start of a…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Learning Activities