Collaborative writing methods such as peer criticism and group revision were in use before the collaborative learning movement¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1988 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1993: baselines and conditions change
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? The paper's historical review of composition antecedents argues that teachers were already experimenting with peer criticism, group writing and revision, and teacher-student collaboration before Bruffee. → DeCiccio 1988

Evidence¶

DeCiccio 1988¶

DeCiccio, Albert C. (1988). Social Constructionism and Collaborative Learning: Recommendations for Teaching Writing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED294201

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Historical argument drawing on an appended bibliography of composition antecedents. The paper states that "even before Bruffee, teachers were experimenting" with methods including peer criticism and group writing and revision.

"in fact, even before Bruffee, teachers were experimenting with such collaborativemethods as peer criticism, group writing and revision, teacher-student collaboration,and so forth."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• If writing and thinking are forms of conversation, collaborative learning is an extension of social constructionism into the composition classroom — related
• Students' writing is argued, citing Bruffee, to be only as good as their conversation about writing — related
• Acting on the collaborative writing recommendations is argued to produce active student writers who attend to what their peers say — related