Collaborative Writing

CS492BCreative System DesignNetwork Computing Lab

Souneil Park

Motivation

• Many times, collaboration is required while writing something– Ex) research paper, journal

• You have to think about it together, write it together, revise it together– You have to communicate through the

whole process of the writing

Motivation

• It becomes important to express one’s ideas/intentions effectively

• Also, It becomes important to deeply understand others ideas and intentions

• Output should satisfy all the writers

• example

Goal

• Train your collaborative writing skill by writing an essay together– Learn how to

• structure the writing together• understand other’s thinking through the writing• influence people using the writing• develop idea/writing together

• As an output, you must publish your writing– Such as school newspaper, etc…

How?

• First, for 3 weeks– Find an interesting topic– Each member should develop the writing freely

(1day/person, excluding weekends)• Amount of writing is free

– But the output should be longer than a page

• Without verbal communication!• Evaluate/Critique your writing after 4 weeks

– In the perspective of • global structure, creativity, expressivity of various

ideas and intentions

– And find a better approach

How?

• 3 weeks from this Wednesday

• Select a topic until Wednesday

example

• Click

Homepage

• http://nclab.kaist.ac.kr/lecture/cs492b_2005_Spring/moniwiki/wiki.php/