Describes the author's consulting experience, and focuses on two uses of this experience in her business-communication classrooms: a focus on teams (emphasizing differences between collaborative writing assignments in the classroom and team projects in business), and a case devoted to issues in the workplace. (SR)

Studies master's students in professional writing to discern value added by technical communicators. Shows that some expertise is brought to collaborative projects, while other types develop as a function of collaboration. Provides practicing communicators, students, and managers with ideas for documenting, developing, and enhancing this…

This article is concerned with characterizing literacy activity as it is practiced in professional workplaces. Its starting point is activity theory, which grew out of the work of Vygotsky and has been subsequently elaborated in Russia and elsewhere. First, the authors propose that existing versions of activity theory are unable to account…

Recent cases have demonstrated that plagiarism is a hot-button issue. It is also pervasive, occurring in universities, four-year colleges, community colleges, secondary schools, graduate programs, international classrooms, multicultural classrooms, writing centers, writing-across-the-curriculum programs, scholarly publications and the popular…

This concise guide to writing is designed to help any academic become not only productive but truly prolific. It is a pithy, no-nonsense, no-excuses guide to maximizing the quality and quantity of scholarly output. The authors offer an accessible overview of the art of writing efficiently and effectively, provide a one-stop source for the nuts and…

Designed to help teachers develop a collaborative writing community in the intermediate grade classroom, this teacher's resource and support package gives teachers what they need to apply process writing principles to five of the most popular student writing forms or genres ("memorable moments,""interesting…

The term "collaborative writing" is a broad term, but should not be confused with coauthorship. Defining collaborative writing as merely coauthoring suggests that students continue producing texts for texts' (and evaluations') sake, whereas defining collaborative writing as community writing implies that students use language and texts to make…

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…

Examines why the relationship between plagiarism and collaboration seems so inherently problematic and suggests that it may have a great deal to do with the concept of "voice." (TB)

Focuses on the use of line poetry as a therapeutic technique in a support group for survivors of sexual assault. Finds line poetry, a group activity in which members contribute lines to a collective poem, to be helpful in developing a bond among members, validating feelings, and offering a powerful outlet for self-expression. (SG)

Offers practical guidelines for collaborative professional writing that are based upon current theory, research, and experience. Defines collaborative writing, lists criteria for selecting co-authors, presents a model for the collaborative writing process, discusses advantages and disadvantages, and offers precepts that will enable collaborative…

Identifies and analyzes 16 factors that influenced a largely unsuccessful collaborative writing process. Uses the language theory of Mikhail Bakhtin to explain how the factors operated together as forces impelled by the social context of the process. (RS)

Argues that students need invention strategies as well as introspection to collect information and make sense of it, but they also need instruction in discriminating among invention strategies and help in choosing the best strategy for a given writing task. Three overlooked strategies are research, collaboration, and form. (RS)

Provides reflections on the work of four writing teachers in a neighborhood adult literacy center to understand better the potential "violence" of literacy learning, to reassess assumptions of expressivist pedagogy, and to turn to M. Bakhtin and M. Foucault as interpretive frames for theorizing adult literacy learning. Proposes…

Summarizes and updates an earlier descriptive survey of male-to-female publishing ratios in rhetoric and composition journals. Expands the earlier survey to see how much collaborative work is being published and how much is male coauthored, female coauthored, or mixed gender. (RS)