Learning about subject matter and about writing by collaboratively authoring an electronic document is an important variant of computer-supported collaborative learning. Collaborative writing is particularly often practiced in Higher Education. Our research has the goal to develop comprehensive software support tools for collaborative discipline-based writing, and to study how the team writing ...

background and objective: co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” iranian journal of pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...

This study was aimed to compare long-term effects of collaborative and individual task planning on Persian-speaking EFL learners’ writing performance, using Brown and Bailey’s (1985) rating scale. Therefore, a group of 90 upper-intermediate EFL learners in collaborative task planning, individual task planning, and control groups took part in the study. In the experimental groups, the participan...

This work explores a novel approach to the analysis and modelling of computer supported collaborative writing. The aim of this dynamic modelling approach is to capture the structure of user behaviour as they interact with a computer system. Markov chains models are derived from the empirical data on the use of the system. These models are compared so as to highlight how the dynamic structure of...

This paper reviews several user experiences researchers at the University of Arizona have had in building Internet-based tools to support collaborative writing. First, the technological framework for an advanced collaborative writing tool called Collaboratus is presented. Next, we review the tools that make up Collaboratus, and then provide an overview of the various user experiences we have ha...

Increasing complexity in medicine has caused clinical trial experts with disparate backgrounds from multiple organizations to collaborate when developing clinical trial protocols. Although many protocol-authoring tools provide computerbased decision support to assist in protocol writing, few of them provide sufficient collaboration support for a group of protocol writers. The iterative group wr...

This investigation postulatesVygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (ZPD) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as Norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.Thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an Iranian EFL writing...

This case study explored collaborative writing in Chinese among 59 primary four Chinese students using a Wiki-based Collaborative Process Writing Pedagogy (WCPWP) in Shenzhen, China. It aimed mainly to design and orchestrate a WCPWP in order to facilitate students' Chinese writing. It investigated students' collaborative writing process and their performance on a wiki, and explored the percepti...