Maybe because I’ve always been interested in the craft of writing, but I’m
curious to see what the sticking points are in the construction of the
article. How are people negotiating the facts and the bias that they see? Who do
they accede to? When does debate end? As I find myself creating more and more
collaborative pieces of writing (Google Docs and Google Notebooks in particular)
I find the process to be very different from the writing I normally do. And I
keep thinking what a necessary part of the writing process this type of
negotiation is going to be as we collaborate more and more on wikis and
documents and videos and whatever else. When I ask teachers whether their
students are writing employing truly collaborative practices (not simply
“cooperative”) and whether they are writing either alone or together in
hypertext environments (which I also believe is a part of writing literacy these
days), blank stares usually ensue.