Individual Writing Versus Collaborative Writing
Individual Writing versus Collaborative Writing
Team C
COMM/105
November 13, 2009
Jennifer Core
Individual Writing versus Collaborative Writing This essay will indentify similarities and differences between the individual writing process and the collaborative writing process. Collaborative writing is the way that people in the fields of business, government, and technology compose large writing assignments (Baecker, 1993). There are many advantages to collaborative writing. One advantage is that writing with other people is very helpful because they can offer knowledge and skills that an individual writer may not possess. Having many writers help produce a document can relieve a lot of stress. If a writer has less to write, they will have more time to focus on what they are writing and make their portion much better.
Although collaborative writing has many good advantages, it also has many disadvantages. Collaborative writing can cause feuds between coworkers when they disagree about different issues. Collaborative writing can also be very time consuming. Preparing a document that pleases multiple people instead of just one writer can be very difficult. When giving their opinions, gender and multicultural differences may arise. It can cause differences and misunderstandings in writing process. An individual writing process may be preferable when writing a short document that has to do with just one expertise.
Similarities between collaborative and individual writing is that, if both writings are considered masterpieces, the instructor will have the same effort and time reviewing both papers. To the reader, whether a student, an employee or a division head, receives the same amount of knowledge, experience or learning. Generally speaking, similarities between collaborative and individual writings excel the aspects of contrast. Studies of experienced writers indicate that they often set new goals for themselves as they draft, that is, and they discover
Team C
COMM/105
November 13, 2009
Jennifer Core
Individual Writing versus Collaborative Writing This essay will indentify similarities and differences between the individual writing process and the collaborative writing process. Collaborative writing is the way that people in the fields of business, government, and technology compose large writing assignments (Baecker, 1993). There are many advantages to collaborative writing. One advantage is that writing with other people is very helpful because they can offer knowledge and skills that an individual writer may not possess. Having many writers help produce a document can relieve a lot of stress. If a writer has less to write, they will have more time to focus on what they are writing and make their portion much better.
Although collaborative writing has many good advantages, it also has many disadvantages. Collaborative writing can cause feuds between coworkers when they disagree about different issues. Collaborative writing can also be very time consuming. Preparing a document that pleases multiple people instead of just one writer can be very difficult. When giving their opinions, gender and multicultural differences may arise. It can cause differences and misunderstandings in writing process. An individual writing process may be preferable when writing a short document that has to do with just one expertise.
Similarities between collaborative and individual writing is that, if both writings are considered masterpieces, the instructor will have the same effort and time reviewing both papers. To the reader, whether a student, an employee or a division head, receives the same amount of knowledge, experience or learning. Generally speaking, similarities between collaborative and individual writings excel the aspects of contrast. Studies of experienced writers indicate that they often set new goals for themselves as they draft, that is, and they discover