Journal 8

Collaboration can referred to as the act of working together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.  In terms of writing this term simply suggests the practice of giving input and ideas to collectively create a type of text which has more than one author or creator.  More often then not, I think collaboration is used in everyday writing and proves to be a very beneficial.  In the article we were assigned by Jenkins,  a form of collaboration in writing called The Daily Prophet is explained.  On this website, a community of Harry Potter fans from all over are able to submit their ideas or furthering chapters of Harry Potter and creating a piece they can all enjoy.  The creator of the website, Heather Lawver, corrects the submitted pieces for grammar, spelling, and style, and then submits them back to the kids.  This entire website embodies the idea of collaboration in writing, and shows the results of growth and improvement when more than one pair of eyes and more than one mind aids in creating a piece.

In terms of everyday writing, I believe it is definitely a beneficial practice to collaborate on pieces.  As Emily mentioned, scrapbooks are a good example of everyday writing that utilizes collaboration.  People from the same communities can add and help create scrapbooks, which ultimately adds to creating a piece which is more unique and tells not only stories and outlooks from one person, but several people.  Although, many forms of everyday writing are quite personal and collaboration is not as evident among them.  For instance, and tattoo artist must collaborate with the person getting that tattoo in order to get something that most people will be able to see; something not intended for a super small audience.  Although letters between lovers or diary entries do not involve the gathering of a community to help collaborate and create these piece.  In terms of everyday writing, collaboration can serve as extremely beneficial and help circulate ideas although it is not necessary for many, more personal pieces.