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The Essential Collaborative

Writing Toolkit

A framework for evaluating the new

collaborative writing environments

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Collaborative writings importance

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Collaborative writings importance

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The collaborative writing toolkit

The Fundamentals

satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications

technically agnostic

free of geographic and temporal constraints

Role Control

control of collaborators permissions

protects collaborators privacy

Version Control

reliably maintains a unique version of the collaborators document at all times

tracks the documents development, including who made changes and

highlighting differences between the text of various versions of the document

Synchroneity

Awareness

Communication

email

commenting

chat

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The Fundamentals

satisfactorily simulates the most common word

processing applications

technically agnostic

free of geographic and temporal constraints

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The Fundamentals

Satisfactorily Simulates Common Word Processing Applications

Google Documents Interface

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The Fundamentals

Technically Agnostic

Google Documents Compatibility Chart

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Free of Geographic and Temporal Constraints

The Fundamentals

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Role Control

Control of Collaborators Permissions

Google Documents Role Control Screen

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Synchroneity

Collaborators writing together in real-time in Google Documents

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Awareness

Various ways awareness is imparted to collaborators in Google Documents

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CommunicationEmail

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Communication

Commenting

Sidebar annotations in Google Documents

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Communication

Chat

Chat feature in Google Documents

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The collaborative writing toolkit

The Fundamentals

satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications

technically agnostic

free of geographic and temporal constraints

Role Control

control of collaborators permissions

protects collaborators privacy Version Control

reliably maintains a unique version of the collaborators document at all times

tracks the documents development, including who made changes and

highlighting differences between the text of various versions of the document

Synchroneity

Awareness

Communication

email

commenting

chat

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