Col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve wri­ting

As a group, you are going to work to­ge­ther and write your let­ters by dis­cus­sing ideas, mee­ting chal­len­ges and sol­ving pro­blems to­ge­ther. You are going to write your let­ters as co-edi­tors which means you’ll be co­ope­ra­ting with each other by cont­ri­bu­ting dif­fe­rent sec­tions to the draft of the out­li­ne. You’ll com­men­tin a po­si­ti­ve con­struc­tive way on dif­fe­rent text parts your team mem­bers have writ­ten.

To some extent, you will be al­lo­wed to or­ga­ni­ze your work your­sel­ves (wi­thout your teacher). Make the most of your in­di­vi­du­al strengths! Talk to each other as much as you can. Ex­plain your ideas and com­ment on the ideas your team mem­bers have. Working to­ge­ther, you will be able to crea­te an ex­cep­tio­nal Let­ter About Li­te­ra­tu­re (LAL).

Step 1 Plan­ning: clus­te­ring - selec­ting - ar­ran­ging

Du­ring the brain­stor­ming ac­tivi­ty, you should have ge­ne­ra­ted ideas. Plea­se or­ga­ni­ze them now.

Clus­te­ring: Dis­cuss which of these ideas be­long to­ge­ther.

Selec­ting: Dis­cuss which of these ideas you as a group want to in­clu­de in your LAL(re­fer­ring to the re­sults of the ana­ly­sis: con­tent)

Ar­ran­ging: Dis­cuss how to ar­ran­ge these ideas (Using the re­sults of the ana­ly­sis as your basis: textu­al co­he­rence).

Step 2 Out­li­ne (first draft)

Co-con­struct an out­li­ne for your LAL. An out­li­ne helps you to or­ga­ni­ze your ma­te­ri­al in a struc­tu­red way. It shows the re­la­ti­ve im­port­an­ce of points and the lo­gi­cal con­nec­tions bet­ween them.

Base your out­li­ne on what you have found out du­ring your ana­ly­sis of the prize-win­ning let­ters (textu­al co­he­rence).

Step 3 Scaf­fol­ding

In order to im­pro­ve the qua­li­ty of your text, work through the man­da­to­ry works­heets and de­ci­de which of the op­tio­nal works­heets you as a group want to do (you may do them all and dis­tri­bu­te them among your group mem­bers so that you can teach each other).

Maybe you want to chan­ge parts of your out­li­ne after ha­ving gai­ned more in­sight by working through the scaf­fol­ding ma­te­ri­al (draft the se­cond out­li­ne).

Step 4 Write your let­ter

Now it’s time to write your let­ter by using the ap­pro­pria­te chunks and phra­ses from the prize-win­ning let­ters you have ana­ly­zed.

Work to­ge­ther on the book ends (in­tro­duc­tion and con­clu­si­on):

Work to­ge­ther on the the­sis: What is your main idea (i.e., the link bet­ween the book and yours­elf)?

Dis­tri­bu­te the ar­gu­ments (plus ex­pla­na­ti­ons, ex­am­ples, ...) you have found for the sup­porting body amongst the team mem­bers. Write in­di­vi­dual­ly.

Work to­ge­ther on lin­king the dif­fe­rent parts (co­he­si­on).

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