The Impact of Collaborative Writing in Classrooms
Start Date
April 2025
Location
2nd floor - Library
Abstract
This research project will expand on the positives impacts of collaborative writing within classrooms and how students react personally and analytically to writing with their peers. Essentially all sources used point to the benefits of collaborative writing as opposed to any sort of negative impact it may have. However, subjectively, students and professionals tend to prefer their independence when it comes to writing due to control aspects, creativity, and freedom. I have created my own survey to view this subjective data, taken mostly by students. The survey asked questions pertaining to their liking of writing with others and what would make collaborative writing more enticing. My point in comparing what data points to, that being a decrease in grammatical errors, positive prose, and many more beneficial factors in collaborative writing, and what writers feel is to bring awareness to how collaborative writing is almost always effective. Even if a project itself is written independently, peer review is essential to the process of writing and how a writer is able to view their own work from another's perspective. With this, collaborative writing even benefits independent writing by allowing students to combine perspectives and knowledge in order to create the most intellectual outcome possible.
The Impact of Collaborative Writing in Classrooms
2nd floor - Library
This research project will expand on the positives impacts of collaborative writing within classrooms and how students react personally and analytically to writing with their peers. Essentially all sources used point to the benefits of collaborative writing as opposed to any sort of negative impact it may have. However, subjectively, students and professionals tend to prefer their independence when it comes to writing due to control aspects, creativity, and freedom. I have created my own survey to view this subjective data, taken mostly by students. The survey asked questions pertaining to their liking of writing with others and what would make collaborative writing more enticing. My point in comparing what data points to, that being a decrease in grammatical errors, positive prose, and many more beneficial factors in collaborative writing, and what writers feel is to bring awareness to how collaborative writing is almost always effective. Even if a project itself is written independently, peer review is essential to the process of writing and how a writer is able to view their own work from another's perspective. With this, collaborative writing even benefits independent writing by allowing students to combine perspectives and knowledge in order to create the most intellectual outcome possible.
