Abstract:
Many teachers encourage the sharing of ideas through collaborative group writing as a means of building self-confidence in developing writers. One aim of collaborative writing is to enable students to develop a sense of supported authorial voice through sharing thoughts and ideas with others. As individuals become more confident, they may trust group members sufficiently to engage in increasingly critiqued textual practices without experiencing humiliation or ostracism. grow within the group Where individuals experience a sense of authorial voice through textual encounters within a group, writing development may emerge. However, some students do not appear to develop a notion of authorial voice in collaborative group writing experiences. Rather, they reproduce passages of texts without appearing to engage with or respond to the ideas generated by discussion within the writing group. This evolving study explores online collaborative writing.