The Collaborative Writing Project

The Collaborative Writing Project is a space to exchange ideas, share experiences, and ask questions about collaborative writing as a pedagogical and scholarly tool.

It is also a ring of associated spaces on the Geneseo wiki where users engage in collaborative writing connected to academic courses.

Spaces currently associated with the Collaborative Writing Project:

• Annotated Literary Texts, a space where users can collaboratively mark up poems and prose passages of literary prose with informational and interpretive commentary.
• Bibliographies and Study Guides, a space where users can collaboratively build bibliographic resources and content outlines.
• Collaborative Essays and Articles, a space where users can co-author works of extended prose.
• Genetically Modified Literature, a space where users can re-code the classics by, for example, creating hybrid characters or texts.
• [The Annotated U.S. Constitution], an interactive version of the U.S. Constitution to which users can add scholarly textual annotations and personal commentary.

Paul Schacht launched the project in Fall 2005 as a free-standing wiki (using Mediawiki) at SUNY Geneseo. For the moment, it still lives at http://go.geneseo.edu/cwp, but its contents are being gradually transfered to Geneseo's Confluence wiki.

Schacht contributed a chapter on the Collaborative Writing Project to Stewart Mader's wiki-book Using Wiki in Education, and gave a presentation on it at SUNY's 2007 Conference on Instructional Technologies.

A condition on Collaborative Writing Project pages in Confluence is that they cannot be restricted to usergroups. (See Geneseo's Wiki Policy.) However, a CWP page may carry an advisory that it is intended for the use of a particular course. Students are asked to respect such advisories, and faculty who post them are free to remove unwelcome contributions.

If you'd like a page created in one of the existing CWP spaces or have an idea for a new space, please contact schacht-at-geneseo-dot-edu. Ditto if you simply have a question about the project.

Hands in the CWP logo courtesy of doozzle.