Editing Distributive writing

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'''Distributive writing''' is the collective authorship (or '''distributed authorship''') of texts.

This further requires both a definition of ''collective'' and ''texts'', where collective means a connected group of individuals and texts are inscribed symbols chained together to achieve a larger meaning than isolated symbols. This places emphasis on texts being represented as writings. This could be written words, iconic [[Symbol|symbology]] (e.g., [[graffiti]]), [[computer programming language]]s ([[C (programming language)|C]]/[[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Perl]], etc.), [[meta-level mark-up]] ([[HTML]], [[XML]], [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]], [[PostScript]]), and their derivative works. Also, not to be excluded are all the above in various languages. Further, to define texts, we must also have an interpreter for the texts. For [[Programming language|computer programming languages]], we have a compiler, for writings we have written words interpreted by our mental faculties, and for meta-level mark-up there are [[web browser]]s, printers to interpret [[postscript]], and various [[software application]]s which turn textual representations into another format. (Patrick Deegan and Jon Phillips, 2004)

== In ancient and oral literatures ==
The concept of distributed authorship has been applied to [[oral tradition]]s in which one person's telling of a traditional story reflects the oral recitations of many previous tellers. It has likewise been applied to oral-derived written traditions, where a [[manuscript]] text is shaped by its transmission through multiple [[scribe]]s, each of whom may alter the text.<ref>Slavica Ranković, '[http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12098/1/430581.pdf The distributed author and the poetics of complexity: a comparative study of the sagas of Icelanders and Serbian epic poetry]' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006).</ref>

== Software to support distributive writing ==

=== Social Software ===
[[Social Software]] enables people to connect, communicate, and collaborate. It is explicitly the social which is of importance and is what is operated on. It is the commodity in the system. This is different from Distributive Writing because social software is based upon software, whereas DW is not, and is not just about collaborative writing. It is also about other forms of [[Socialization|socializing]].

=== Collaborative software, aka Groupware ===
[[Collaborative software|GroupWare]] is about software and more importantly, in common use to describe combining many pieces of software together into a group for so-called easy access for an individual. The original definition had to do with a group of people operating on something collaboratively through software, but this has changed meaning due to corporate appropriation to describe software suites like [[Microsoft Office]] and [[LibreOffice]].

=== Computer-supported collaboration (CSCT) ===
Distributive writing is not just bound to [[computing]] like CSCT.

== Types ==
'''[[Synchronization|Synchronous]]''' – System of authorship where both author's make changes in real time (at the same time).

'''[[wikt:asynchronous|Asynchronous]]''' – System of authorship where both author's make changes in non-real time ('''render time''' or not at the time).

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050504175931/http://www.stc.org/ConfProceed/2003/PDFs/STC50-111.pdf When No One’s Home: Being a Remote Writer in Distributed Teams]
* [https://awriter.org/basic-writing-skills/ Essential Skills for Every Writer] - Infographic

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