Examines female leadership emergence in small groups whose primary task is collaborative writing tasks. Shows how perceptions of leadership depend on both oral and written enactments. Outlines the relationship between the task of writing and the role of the leader in collaborative writing groups. (HB)

Describes the pros and cons of using collaborative writing assignments in the English classroom. Gives one teacher's experiences using collaborative writing in a college prep composition course. (HB)

Describes a collaborative writing assignment devised for a first-year composition class. Outlines how the assignment was undertaken and carried out by the students. Provides background on the theoretical literature concerning collaborative writing. (HB)

Discusses the problems and benefits of teaching technical writing classes in a collaborative computer classroom. Concludes that computers let students write more effectively because computers are compatible with the writing process and that teaching students to write in a collaborative computer environment prepares them for group projects and…

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…

Examines the effect of collaborative writing on cohesion in poetry therapy groups with 33 graduate students. Finds that post test scores on the Group Environment Scale indicated a significant difference in cohesion for those groups using collaborative writing compared to those without collaborative writing. (SR)

Reviews journal discussion of the problem of multiple-authorship in bibliometrics. Discusses three methods by Egghe and Rousseau: first author counting, normal counting and fractional counting. (JAK)

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)

Reviews selective research on collaborative writing and then shows how group dynamics and peer review techniques can be integrated into classroom group writing projects. (TB)

This paper reports on a study which investigates the implementation of a wiki system as an additional tool to support student learning in an IT related course offered by the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). It focuses on a set of interview data related to the tutors' and students' views on and experience of their use or otherwise of the system…

"VideoPaper Builder" (VPB) was originally funded in 2001 through the National Science Foundation's "Bridging Research and Practice" program in recognition of the software's promise to articulate the relevance and facilitate the dissemination of educational research to practicing teachers. After four years and two subsequent…

The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…

This book is in favor of the inclusion of co-authoring in writing instruction and provides theoretical and research background to support the value of this strategy, which involves more than just peer editing and small-group revision. According to the book, co-authoring builds naturally on the social emphasis of the writing process and…

In order to study the theory and practice of collaborative writing, a three-stage research project was initiated. The first stage of research involved a questionnaire sent to 200 randomly selected members of six major professional associations. On a separate sheet accompanying the first questionnaire, respondents were asked to indicate whether…