Barn-raising+and+barn-burning_a+study+of+co-authoring+in+a+developmental+writing+classroom

Barn-raising and barn-burning: a study of co-authoring in a developmental writing classroom by Michele Ann Eodice Dissertation: Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Ch. 1-2. December 1999.  Review Michele Ann Eodice starts her study with an overview of co-authorship and collaborative writing, and more importantly by defining co-authorship. She identifies the problems that arise from people using terms such as collaborative learning, cooperative learning, collaboration, and co-authorship interchangeably, as they all mean different things and can be misleading to their purpose if used wrong. Once she has defined co-authoring in context of her study, face-to-face workshoping to produce a product, she is able to set her research question: //What happens when developmental writers in a writing workshop class work together face-to-face to co-author?// In chapter two she takes the reader through her research of literature on the subject, which sets the back drop for her study.