Rhetoric Review Jul 2003

Questionable Categories and the Case for Collaborative Writing

Rafael Heller

Abstract

Contrary to much recent scholarship, this essay argues that there is no such thing as a collaborative mode of literacy. Specifically, it takes issue with Andrea Lunsford and others who have called for a profound shift in the zeitgeist of composition studies, as though it were possible to transform students from competitive to collaborative writers. In a larger sense, though, the article is not about collaboration at all; rather, it uses the literature on collaborative writing to illustrate a certain kind of scholarly exaggeration, whereby composition reformers try too hard to distill practical lessons from interpretive categories.

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Rhetoric Review
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2003-07-01
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10.1207/s15327981rr2203_05
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collaborative writing literacy studies
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