Computer Supported Collaborative Writing (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)

Sharples, Mike:

ISBN 10: 3540197826 / ISBN 13: 9783540197829

Published by Springer, 2013

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240 p. Unread book. Like new! 9783540197829 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 386 Softcover: 15.5 x 1.4 x 23.5 cm. Seller Inventory # 202577

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Title: Computer Supported Collaborative Writing (...

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st.

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Synopsis:

M. Sharples 1. 1 The Collaborative Tradition Collaborative writing is nothing new. The description below is from the introduction to a book published in 1911: Every page, however, has been debated and passed by the three of us. Our usual method has been, first to pick up a subject that interested us, perhaps a subject we had been talking about for a long while, then to discuss it and argue over it, ashore and afloat, in company and by ourselves, till we came to our joint conclusion. Then on a rough day, in a set-to discussion, I would take down notes, which frequently amounted in length to more than half the finished article. From the notes I would make a rough draft, which, after more discussion, would be re­ written, and again, after revision, typewritten. We would go through the printer's proofs together and finally, after reading the matter in print, we have once more revised it for book publication. Collaboration could not be more thorough. (Reynolds, et al. 1911, p. x) The book, Seems So! A Working-class View of Politics, was written by an aca­ demic working closely with two fishermen.

Synopsis:

This volume arose from a one-day meeting which provided the first major opportunity for those working in the area of computers and collaborative writing to meet, present their work and exchange ideas. The aim of the meeting was to bring together differing interests - software design, studies of collaborating writers, CSCW for technical authoring, and models of the collaborative writing process - to explore the research problems and offer practical solutions. The volume offers in-depth studies of formal and informal collaboration and proposes preliminary designs for computer tools.