Collaborative Writing Process

Often, large or complex writing projects are done collaboratively. Collaborative writing projects require the input from several different people and often produce a final product with more ideas and insights than if done by just one person.

You are the team leader for team of five for a writing project. Describe the advantages and disadvantages to writing collaboratively. How would you organize the collaborative writing project? What would you do to ensure consistency among the writers and timeliness?

Collaborative writing can help while in a team to help with the writing process. "The more complex and longer your project, the more likely you will work with others," (Smith-Worthington & Jefferson, 2011, p. 93). Some advantages to writing collaboratively...