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December 06, 2005
yet another definition (collaborative writing 22/50)
Dyson, Anne Haas, ed. Collaboration Through Writing and Reading: Exploring Possibilities. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1989.
1 sentence summary: by "collaborating through" she and her contributors really means "collaborating means combining"; they worked in some measure collaboratively to produce this collection, but the object of their scrutiny was more what i'd characterize as the intersection of writing and reading as the place where literacy and learning live.
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3. dyson's definition: "by collaboration, i refer both to the collaboration of the language arts, particularly of writing and reading, in school, and to the collaboration of people through language use."
6. when the writers came together to collaboratively outline their project, they found dealing with specifics a necessity; their general ways of talking about writing and reading and their intersections were too general & too different to work with & "talking about writing and reading and their interrelationships was difficult unless speakers articulated their own images--who is the writer or reader?"
11. writing & reading--"the collaboration of people [is] implicit in both processes"; christopher takes alex's preferences into account before selecting the color crayon he wants to use to write his friend's name--shows audience awareness.
Posted by ttobryan at December 6, 2005 04:03 PM