Journal #8

Collaboration is the mixing of ideas to create a final project that is cohesive and a representation of all the participating groups. In the reading the Hogwarts newspaper is the project for which a number of children put together different, original stories to create one newspaper that is put online and shared with the world.  Collaboration involves sharing ideas with one another like the students showing their work to Lawyer for editing and lawyer giving them style and grammar help.  Collaboration requires listening to the ideas of others and objectively evaluating them. By evaluating them I mean deciding what can contribute to your final project and what cannot.  This is probably the most difficult part of collaboration because of the reflection involved in the process.

            Collaboration is essential in all forms of writing. A great amount of collaboration goes into writing a novel, obviously because it must go through a strict editing process.  In everyday writing collaboration can be equally important. Collaboration is important for everyday writing texts like social media posts. When someone replies or comments on a post to a social media site they are essentially collaborating with the author of the post.  An essential part of an everyday writing text is that it provides a solution to a rhetorical exigency. This is important because a rhetorical exigency needs to be solved through rhetoric, which inherently invites collaboration in order to find a solution. Collaboration isn’t necessary for all forms of everyday writing because some forms are purely personal, such as a scrapbook, and do not require collaboration with other people.