Blog Post 8

Collaboration by definition is the action of working with someone to produce or create something. Writing can be done by collaborating but you don't have to collaborate to write. It helps to collaborate with someone when you are trying to create a piece of writing. Peer review is a huge part of collaboration not only in the writing world but science and math. Having someone else look at your work improves your work because you may have missed something or something could be added to make your work better. As Taylor mentioned, in life usually more than one person is involved in creating something. For scripts, there is a team of writers that put their heart and sole into one script for a movie. In business, usually when you write something you have to go to your superior to get it approved and they usually change some things while reading it. 
In everyday writing, collaboration is used constantly. Scrapbooks are a great example. When my mom made scrapbooks, she hosted scrapbooking parties where all of her friends came together and collaborated and shared ideas with one another. My mom is not a very creative person however, her friends helped her with more of the creative aspect of scrapbooking while she might have helped them with the writing portion. Tattoos are another great example. Like the guy in our case study, he had someone make a tattoo then another person actually put the tattoo on his body. When you have something that's going to be permanently tattooed on your body, you want it to look good. You have to get a bunch of opinions and ideas from different people till you get the exact design you want.