Collaborative Learning
 Annotated Bibliography  
and Links
 
Anita L. Beaman's Homepage
Wei Gao's Homepage
Brian H. Langford's Homepage
 
Suggestions for Teaching Collaborative Writing
 
Angeletti, Sara R. " Group Writing and Publishing: Building Community in a Second-grade Classroom."  Language Arts. 70.6 (1993): 494-500. 
**A second grade class published a book developed by the whole class and then moved on to small group work. The children selected their one leader and followed a collaborative writing process throughout the project. The teacher’s role is to be both writer and facilitator.

Baarnum, Carol M. " Collaborative Writing in Graduate Technical Communication: Is There a Difference?"  Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Fall 1994 v24 n4 p405-21.  

Beck, Eevi E. " Changing Documents/Documenting Changes: Using Computers for Collaborative Writing Over Distance."  The Sociological Review.  43.SPEISS(1995): 53-69. 
** A discussion of how computers assist collaborative writing over distance.

Bender, Eric. " Write it Together." ( Lotus Word Pro) ( Do-it-Yourself Workgroup Software) ( Software Review) (Evaluation) PC World.  13.10 (1995): 116-7.
**Review of a software application, Word Pro word processor developed by Lotus Development Corp. The product is recommended as the ideal choice for collaborative writing. 

Bleich, David. "Collaboration and the Pedagogy of Disclosure." College English. 57.1 (1995): 43-62. 
**The author argues that collaborative research, writing and learning can contribute to study by helping to create and reveal the interrelations and connections between students and throughout the school environment.

Brockman, Elizabeth Blackburn.  "English Isn’t a Team Sport, Mrs. Brockman."  English  Journal. 83:1 (Jan 1994): 60-62.  
**Teacher Elizabeth Blackburn discusses collaborative writing work in her high school classroom.  She includes several student's reactions to collaborative writing in their own words.  

Bruffee, Kenneth A.  "Thinking and Writing as Social Acts."  
**Bruffee discusses writing as social constructionist theory and how teachers can help students form support communities to facilitate joining articulate writing groups.  

Cyd's Collaborative Creations 
**A creative writing outlet for young adults and the young at heart.  Cyd's Collaborative Creations was designed to inspire young "would-be" writers to submit their work for educational enrichment, collaborative learning and interactive enjoyment. 

Dale, Helen.  "Collaborative Research on Collaborative Writing." English Journal. 83:1  
(Jan 1994): 66-71.  
**Dale, a university supervisor in a teacher education program worked with a ninth grade English teacher to discover "what happens when students co-author."  Dale explains the collaborative writing strategies used and their results. 

Doane, Janice, and Devon Hodges. "Writing from the Trenches: Women’s Work and Collaborative Writing."  Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 14.1 (1995): 51-8. 
** An account of questions and dichotomies brought by an authorial collaboration of fifteen years. The author argues that collaboration is nurtured within a patriarchal culture though it overtly works to provide a subversive alternative to the normsof patriarchy. 

Edwards, Mary. " Computer-Supported Collaborative Writing."  (Book Reviews)  Ergonomics. Feb 1995 v38 n2 p424-8.  

English Teacher's Page 
**Lots of sites for secondary ed. English teachers including stuff on teaching writing. 

Elbrecht, Joyce, and Lydia Fakundiny. " Scenes from a Collaboration: or Becoming Jael B. Juba." Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 13.2 (1994): 241-58. 
**Two women authors discuss about their collaborative work on a novel in their different voices and identities and seek the help of their fictional author Jael B. Juba to discuss the complexity and procedures involving collaborative writing. Jael B. Juba discusses the unity of two women at their work and enters into an imaginative interview with both the authors to find out the depth of their involvement in the work.

Feminist Teaching Practices (Bibliography) 
Feminist Pedagogy Homepage 
**These sites deal with feminist pedagogy, which works well with the theory of collaborative learning. 

Glasgow, Jacqueline N, and Margie Bush.  "Promoting Active Learning and Collaborative Writing through a Marketing Project." English Journal.  84.8 (1995): 32-8.  
** A study of how students use multiple types of intelligence and learning skills for creating a marketing project collaboratively. 

Haber, Marian Wynee. " Strategies of Collaborative Writing and Intellectual Enrichment." Journalism Educator. 48.4 (1994): 47-54. 
**Based on the advantages of collaborative writing and planning in the mass media, advertising and industry, the author argues that college journalism courses should include teaching of collaborative writing techniques and strategies that can ensure quality of output and success in their writing efforts. 

Hillebrand, Romana P. "Control and Cohesion: Collaborative Learning and Writing."  English Journal  83.1 (1994): 71-5.
**A literature teacher developed a collaborative writing assignment for her freshmen composition class to be able to draw forth original thoughts and writings that contain both integrity and merit.  
 

Hollman, Bettina.  Personal Interview.  5 March 1999.  
**Hollman, a junior high language arts teacher in Willow Springs, IL, discusses the pros and cons of collaborative learning in her classroom.  

Hot Sites for K-12 Educators 
**Just as it says, this site contains links for D-12 educators divided by subject.  The English list includes info on teaching writing, grammar and literature as well as resources for instructors. 

Illinois Association of Teachers of English 
**IATE provides a working network for the exchange of teaching tips, current research, and professional development. 

Karach, Angela, and Denise Roach. " Collaborative Writing, Consciousness Raising, and Practical Feminist Ethics." Women’s Studies International Forum. 15.2 (1992): 303-9. 
**An account of how collaborative writing can assist women in learning from each other the dynamics of consciousness raising and in studying both feminist principles and ethical issues.

Keys, Carolyn W. " Writing Collaborative Laboratory Reports in Ninth Grade Science: Three Case Studies of Social Interactions." School Science and Mathematics. 96.4 (1996):178-87.
**Social interactions are related to the cognitive work of developing ideas and meanings, and designing models for scientific events. The article analyzes the discussions of three pairs of students to understand social interaction which provides cognitive support.

National Council for Teachers of English 
This is the organization's official website.  It contains info on NCTE, conferences and resources for teachers. 

Newman. Ruth G. " Collaborative Writing with Purpose and Style." Personnel Journal.  67.4 (1988): 37-9. 
The experience of a Boston-based, high-tech firm in producing a corporate mission statement is described to illustrate the planning and
execution of a collaboratively produced document.

Outta Ray's Head 
**The author is a teacher/librarian in a small high school near Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, 
who spent the previous 16 years teaching English, history, art, drama, and special ed.  His site includes several good lesson plans for teaching writing and literature. 

Plowman, Lydia. " Tracing the Evolution of a Co-authored Text." Language and Communication. 13.3 (1993): 149-62. 
**The concept of collaborative writing questions the attention focussed on an individual and shifts the focus to include social dimensions. Studies on the external influences on co-authors and the role of dialogue in collaborative writing reveal the operation of socially distributed cognition among co-authors.

Rice, Rodney P, and . John T. Huguley Jr. " Describing Collaborative Forms: a Profile of the Team-Writing Process."  IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. 37.3 (1994):163-71. 
**Team-authored theses are produced by a group of students subjected to collaborative writing practices. The students’ attitude is analyzed by considering their plan to execute and evaluate their writing activities and collaborative activities.

Salinger, Terry S.  Literacy for Young Children.  Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1996.  
**This book contains many methods for teaching elementarty school children about reading and writing.  It includes possible lesson plans, definitions, explanations and suggestions for teaching children to be literate.  

Schuman, R. Baird. " Collaborative Writing." Education Leadership. 49.5 (1992): 82-3. 
**A discussion of the role of collaborative writing in helping students develop self-confidence and making writing easier.

Smith III, Robert E. " Collaborative Writing in Industry: Investigations in Theory and Practice." (Book Reviews) Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Wntr 1994 v24 n1 p107-11.  

So Many Colors 
**This is an extensive site containing ideas for multimedia teaching of literature and writing. It includes lesson plans and suggestions, info for parents, students and educators and relevant links. 

Teachers & Writers Collaborative 
**T&W brings writers and educators together in collaborations that explore the connections between writing  and reading literature and that generate new ideas and materials.On this site, be sure to visit Web Net -- it has stuff on teaching techniques, student issues and a virtual poetry forum. 

Vincent, Gray. "Just short of Paradise: Collaborative Writing in Middle School." English Journal. 82.7 (1993): 58-61. 
**A description of a collaborative project in which students in an English class were asked to write their views about different topics. Their works were collected and compiled into a magazine. The project stimulated student performance and creativity.

When is a Singing School Not a  Chorus?  The Emancipatory Agenda in Feminist Pedagogy and Literature Education 
**An essay addressing "democratic education and student ownership of their own learning . . . literature education and feminist/critical pedagogy, where personal and social transformation are implicit and explicit goals. Underlying the ethical aims of feminist pedagogy and literature education is accepting the Other on the Other's own terms." 

Winkelmann, Carol L. " Electronic Literacy, Critical Pedagogy, and Collaboration: a Case for Cyborg Writing." Computers and Humanities. 29.6(1995): 431-49.  
**Study of the convergence of electronic literacy, collaboration, and critical pedagogy in the classroom. The author argues that teachers in the humanities must relinquish the vestiges of non-electronic criteria in their assessments of electronic literacy and that democratization and multivocality of co-authored text demands a reassessment of the roles and actions of teacher-readers.

Winter, Janet K. and Joan C. Neal. " Group Writing: Student Perceptions of the Dynamics and Efficiency of Groups."  Business Communication Quarterly. 58.2 (1995): 21-5. 
** A study of student perceptions about the efficiency of collaborative writing. Results revealed that a correlation existed between student perceptions of the quality of a written product and of student’s amount of learning regarding group work.

 
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English 5011: Studies in Rhetoric and Composition- 
Practicing Theory: Teaching, Technology, &Textuality, Spring 1999 
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