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Reviewing Practices in Collaborative Writing

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This paper presents an interview study in which 11 academics as interviewees participated for the purpose of revealing common collaborative writing practices, with particular focus on reviewing documents. First, we present the findings obtained concerning the issues of co-operating strategies underlying the reviewing process, how people revise their documents and comment on them, what they use the previous revision history for, and to what extent current technology is used in the reviewing process. Second, we also discuss aspects of the design of collaborative writing tools.

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  1. IPLAB (Interaction and Presentation Laboratory), Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Hee-Cheol (Ezra) Kim

  2. IPLAB (Interaction and Presentation Laboratory), Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Kerstin Severinson Eklundh

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Kim, HC.(., Eklundh, K.S. Reviewing Practices in Collaborative Writing. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 10, 247–259 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011229212323

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