Writing education and assessment in Norway: Towards shared understanding, shared language and shared responsibility

Communication and Shared Understanding in Collaborative Writing

Writing is a form of communication. Writing together is a process of negotiating for content and meaning of a text. Tools to support collaborative writing must take into consideration the communication which takes place both around and through the text. An extended field study of two groups of four grade six students was carried out to explore the impact of a shared text editor on communication...

Effective mine risk education – a shared responsibility

Prepregnancy Care: A Shared Responsibility

The effective management of pregnancies complicated by diabetes is a shared responsibility—an equal partnership between health care professionals and a responsible woman. Over the last 30 years, major advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and care of diabetes has led to the hope that pregnancy outcomes for women with diabetes would be similar to the outcomes for women without dia...

Towards an Understanding of Shared Understanding in Military Coalition Contexts

Shared understanding is commonly seen as essential to the success of coalition operations, and current research efforts are attempting to develop techniques and technologies to improve shared understanding in military coalition contexts. In spite of this, our understanding of what the term ‘shared understanding’ actually means is surprisingly poor. In part, this problem is attributable to the d...

Multi-Component Efficiency with Shared Resources in Commercial Banks