Computer-Supported Collaborative Writing
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Business and Technical Communication
- Vol. 5 (2) , 123-150
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651991005002001
Abstract
With the advent of electronic networking, writing pedagogy has moved into the arena of computer-supported collaborative writing, using collaborative writing as an instructional means to promote a more social view of the writing process. Therefore, as business and technical communication researchers and instructors, we need to ask the following questions: What kinds of software have been developed to aid computer-supported collaborative writing in the workplace and in the writing classroom? What benefits and problems have resulted from the design and use of this software? What research issues should be addressed as we approach the next decade of computer-supported collaborative writing? In this article the author explores these questions, highlighting five computer-supported collaborative writing systems from the workplace and five such systems from the writing classroom.Keywords
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