What is Collaborative Research and Writing?
It may appear on the surface that collaborative research and writing simple involves the coming together of two or more people to work on a single project. However, working collaboratively involves more than simply working toward the same end; it involves more than dividing up the research duties or the merging together of individually developed pieces of work. Collaborative work, at it’s heart, is the coming together of ideas. Ideas that begin as trains of thought and thematic threads and are then developed, discussed, dissected, analyzed, synthesized, critiqued, challenged, shaped and reshaped in a process of give and take between partners who have the same goal in mind. The goal of an worthy of presentation. Collaborative work can take on many forms and formats depending on the persons involved, but the element of communication is essential. In order for a piece of work to be collaborative the voices of all the authors must come through much like a vocal chorus. No one voice dominat
