From: Scripting as a pedagogical method to guide collaborative writing: university students’ reflections
Main themes | Subthemes | Data examples |
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1. Script-based writing approach | 1.1 Script as advisable and straightforward working method | Respecting the system [= rotation] is thus advisable’. |
1.2 Script guides and organises | It [= script] created structure and clarity what every group member had to do at each moment’. | |
1.3 Script ensures equal involvement | Because of this [= script], the contribution and responsibility of each member came forward’. | |
1.4 Script supports editing, commenting and completing others’ texts | From the second step, we gave comments and edited one another for expanding our ideas and perspectives in terms of the topic’. | |
1.5 Script supports conjoining divergent writing styles | The rotation system was a huge plus for the essay. The different writing styles are matching and the text reads as a whole’. | |
1.6 Additional agreements support script-based writing | We soon discovered we would be more successful if we checked other’s work often’. | |
2. Collective writing approach | 2.1 Free-flowing writing | I think the whole process was more free-flowing rather than consciously structured’. |
2.2 Group (e.g. group dynamics) as a resource for joint writing | I think we were also lucky to get this kind of group’. | |
2.3 Individual interests as resources for writing | This resulted in dividing the work according to our own interests’. | |
2.4 Skill-based individual responsibilities | We divided the tasks again. We took into account the talents of each member’. | |
2.5 Script as meaningless/aimless writing method and difficult to follow | ‘....we discovered that it was more convenient to not follow the rotation system anymore’. | |
2.6 Writing and revising whole document together online/face-to-face | We came together to discuss about the given feedback and adjust our text’. | |
3. Separate writing approach | 3.1 Script as inconsistent writing method | ‘...all of us were fairly inactive with this paper, as we did not know how to continue writing the paper’. |
3.2 Inadequate planning and poor organisation | Hereabout we did not make good agreements and this resulted in chaos’. | |
3.3 Different group sizes in relation to four-phase script | First, we worked to our steps, but after one member left us and we more focused to part which we started with’. | |
3.4 Difficulties in producing text together | Editing a single text all together was not a good idea’. | |
3.5 Difficulties in grouping | But it was a challenge because our group did not really bond, and we never got that close-knit feeling of belonging to the same group’. | |
3.6 Script did not provide guidance for working collaboratively in technology-enhanced environment | I think it was hard to work on Google Drive because I never really knew what I was expected to do’. |