Collaborative Writing in Industry

Introduction, Mary M. Lay and William M. Karis PART I: Theoretical Overview of the Collaborative Process Collaborative Writing, Software Development, and the Universe of Collaborative Activity, David K. Farkas Bruffee, the Bakhtin Circle, and the Concept of Collaboration, Timothy Weiss The Construction of Multi-Authored Texts in One Laboratory Setting, James R. Weber Insight and Collaborative Writing, Meg Morgan and Mary Murray PART II: Case Studies of Collaboration Discourse Interaction between Writer and Supervisor: A Primary Collaboration in Workplace Writing, Barbara Couture and Jone Rymer Facilitating Groups through Selective Participation: An Example of Collaboration from NASA, Elizabeth L. Malone PART III: New Implications for the Classroom The Shared-Document Collaborative Case Response: Teaching and Research Implications of an In-House Teaching Strategy, Elizabeth Tebeaux Collaborative Writinga "Courseware and Telecommunications, Ann Hill Duin, Linda A. Jorn, and Mark S. DeBower Peer Collaboration and the Computer-Assisted Classroom: Bridgingthe Gap between Academia and the Workplace, William Van Pelt and Alice Gillam PART IV: Current Industrial Concerns: Gathering, Verifying, and Editing Information Neuro-Linguistic Programming Tools for Collaborative Writers, Dixie Elise Hickman Verifying Technical Information: Issues in Information-Development Collaboration, Roger A. Grice Collaborative Editing: A Combination of Peer and Hierarchical Editing Techniques, Henrietta Nickels Shirk Selected, Annotated Bibliography on Collaborative Writing, Margaret Batschelet, William M. Karis, and Thomas Trzyna Index Contributors