University Students´ Knowledge Construction during Face to Face Collaborative Writing
Nykopp, M., Marttunen, M., & Laurinen, L. (2014). University Students´ Knowledge Construction during Face to Face Collaborative Writing. In P. Klein, P. Boscolo, L. Kirkpatrick, & C. Gelati (Eds.), Writing as a Learning Activity (pp. 277-299). Studies in Writing (28). Leiden : Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004265011_013
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Collaborative writing combines social processes of writing with cognitive knowledge
construction processes, and thus may lead to deeper learning than individual working. This
study examined students’ knowledge construction during face-to-face collaborative
writing.
University students (n = 21) prepared themselves for the collaborative task by reading
about developmental theories in a course book and writing individual summaries of them.
In small groups, the students discussed each others’ summaries and wrote a joint essay on
one of the theories. The data comprise the students’ individual summaries (n = 21), the
students’ discussions during the essay writing (8177 speech turns), and the students’ joint
essays (n = 6).
The utterances from the students’ discussions indicating knowledge construction (n =
3865) were broadly categorized under the headings of collaborative interaction (Asking
questions, Answers to questions, Collaborative completion, Expressing disagreement or
conflict, Quick agreement, Quick disagreement and Discussing edits) and content
processing (Conceptualizing ideas; Clarifying ideas and Expressing an idea or a thought).
When constructing knowledge during collaborative writing, the students mainly completed
each others’ ideas and asked questions. They rarely expressed disagreement or conflict. A2
collaborative writing task that combines reading, summary writing and group discussion
seems to assist students in their construction of knowledge.
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