Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik
16. Online Writing as a Discovery Process: Synchronous Collaboration
Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik
Brian W King [+]
University of Hong Kong
Brian King is a faculty member in the School of English at University of Hong Kong. His primary research interest is language use in communities, in particular discursive performances of gender and sexuality, computer-mediated communication, and the social construction of space/place. Methodologically he draws on interactional sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and linguistic ethnography.
Description
This study aims to conduct a preliminary exploration of the use of online collaborative writing software in the classroom, asking not what this software does but rather what informed writing teachers and learners might be able to do with it to develop resourceful, confident, and creative writers. It will also consider the possibility that it might in fact be better sometimes to do without it.