To collaborate in general is to work jointly on an activity. In a writing sense, collaboration is when two or more people work together to produce a written document. When I tried to incorporate collaboration in everyday writing, I immediately thought of a newspaper! A newspaper consists of many different articles spanning a variety of topics that eventually come together and form one document. Thus, the team of journalists compose their own writings which essentially are turned into a published document. Another example would be a magazine, etc.
In the article, a different way of collaboration was mentioned. Here, in regards to J.K Rowling’s, Harry Potter series, Heather Lawver created an online “newspaper” where children were encouraged to read by being able to add in their own ideas and articles. The article states that The Daily Prophet currently has over 102 children in its publishing staff. This would be considered everyday writing because these children did not necessarily learn how to write fictional news articles in school. They base it off of their imagination as well as their personal lives. Although it is seen as “institutionalized” because it is an imaginary school, there is no adult supervision, no one to tell the children what they can and cannot write. Therefore, it is completely up to their own discretion.
Collaboration helps people feel a sense of usefulness as well as a sense of unity. Textbooks are often written by numerous people because there is so much information. They could be considered everyday writing because school subjects are based around them and students use them for practical use every day.
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