Editing Collaborative writing (section)

== Uses ==
Collaborative writing may be used in instances where a workload would be overwhelming for one person to produce. Therefore, ownership of the text is from the group that produced it and not just one person.

In 2012, [[Bill Tomlinson]] and colleagues provided the first extensive discussion of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research by documenting the collaborative development process of an [[academic paper]] written by a collective of thirty authors; their work identifies key tools and techniques that would be necessary or useful to the writing process, and to discover, negotiate, and document issues in massively authored scholarship.<ref name="Tomlinson" />

In 2016, Researchers Joy Robinson, Lisa Dusenberry, and Lawrence M. Halcyon conducted a case study investigating the productivity of a team of writers who utilized the practice of interlaced collaborative writing and found that the team was able to produce a published article, a two-year [[grant proposal]], a digital and physical poster, a midterm research report, and [[Academic conference|conference]] presentation over the course of three years. The writers used virtual tools such as [[Google Hangouts]]' voice feature for group check-ins, to hold group discussions, and to write as a group. They used [[Google Docs]] to allow each team member to edit and add writing to a shared document throughout the writing process.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=Joy|last2=Dusenberry|first2=Lisa|last3=Lawrence|first3=Halcyon M.|title=2016 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC) |chapter=Collaborative strategies for distributed teams: Innovation through interlaced collaborative writing |date=October 2016|location=Austin, TX, USA|publisher=IEEE|pages=1–9|doi=10.1109/IPCC.2016.7740489|isbn=9781509017614|s2cid=12405890}}</ref>

Another motive for using collaborative writing is to increase the quality of the completed project by combining the expertise of multiple individuals and for allowing feedback from diverse perspectives. Collaborative writing has been proven to be an effective method of improving an individual's writing skills, regardless of their proficiency level, by allowing them to collaborate and learn from one or more partners and participate in the co-ownership of a written piece. Instructors may utilize this technique to create more student-centered and collaborative learning environments, or they may use it themselves to cross-collaborate with other academics to produce publishable works.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pham|first=Vu Phi Ho|date=January 2021|title=The Effects of Collaborative Writing on Students' Writing Fluency: An Efficient Framework for Collaborative Writing|journal=SAGE Open|volume=11|issue=1|pages=215824402199836|doi=10.1177/2158244021998363|s2cid=232484423 |issn=2158-2440|doi-access=free}}</ref>