Collaboration is a necessary part of every kind of writing. Weather it be just peer review at the final stages of a project collaboration helps the work become complete. Think of it this way, if one is writing a non autobiographical piece that is meant to the reader perspective on a certain topic and ultimately influence their way of thinking, this must be approached from all angles because every individual is different and you never know which approach is going to resonate with them the most. Collaboration can help achieve this because that person will be able to give insightful pointers as to a way you can word something or how you can approach it and touch your target audience better.
As far as plagiarism goes, I don't believe most collaboration is plagiarism because other peoples works are what mainly inspires us. We see others and either think we can make what they done better or start to create our own views on topics because what they have shared with us struck a chord in our minds and made us want express our own point of view on a topic. Professors do it all the time when they teach. They give the students knowledge out of a copyrighted text and then the students start to formulate their own ideas and solutions to exigencies. This is the base of national fellowships and new discoveries across history. Something can be created from nothing, but ingenuity most often comes from stream of consciousness that started with things we learned somewhere else. I'm all for collaboration in less controlled environments and no one should be afraid of it.
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