The process of writing eyeball to eyeball is a balance of working diligently and systematically to create, share, and merge ideas into one. Rebecca Ingalls points out three important elements that need to be established when collaborating. Which are, an openness to one another’s independent interests and experiences, an ability to to communicate productive feedback, and a trust in their shared goals. When working with others on a shared goal, there is combined efforts with specific expertise to help create the highest quality writing for audiences.
Ingalls makes strong points about restructuring our own views of collaborative assignments. From personal experience, when it comes to group projects it’s really hit or miss. I can see how our views on it from the past could affect the future collaborations. There’s a need for open mindedness, organization, and collectively establishing the groups goals and ground rules for a successful collaborative. However we shouldn’t expect every collaboration to be the same.
Alexus Yaekel’s article states it’s okay for failures when it comes to writing. So I would also like to relate that to collaborations. It’s okay if one experience didn’t go as we had hoped, but we can learn from that mistake and aim for a different approach for the next collaboration. Successful collaborations will come from failing at times. However we can’t allow that to stop future collaboration opportunities and progress. Experiment with mistakes and allow room for creativity to take place. Failures should be rejoiced because writing is meant to be crafted.
Leave a Reply