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Collaborative Writing versus Individual Writing: Fluency, Accuracy, Complexity, and Essay Score

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Many researchers claimed that collaboratively produced documents are better in quality, but not many research studies have compared collaboratively produced documents and individually produced documents. Thus, this study aims to investigate whether collaboratively produced essays are better in quality than individually produced essays. The participants of this study were 24 Korean EFL college students. For collaborative writing, the students were paired based on a similar writing proficiency level. A total of 106 essays―three collaboratively produced essays and another three individually produced essays of each student ―were compared in terms of fluency, accuracy, complexity, and essay score. The results showed that collaborative writing was better than individual writing in terms of fluency, complexity, and essay score, while the results for accuracy were mixed. In the case of both higher and lower level students, the results were similar; the collaborative writings of higher and lower level students were better than their individual writings with respect to fluency, complexity, and essay score although the results for accuracy were mixed. The findings of this study may benefit writing teachers who want to adopt computer-supported collaborative writing in their writing classroom.

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Many researchers claimed that collaboratively produced documents are better in quality, but not many research studies have compared collaboratively produced documents and individually produced documents. Thus, this study aims to investigate whether collaboratively produced essays are better in quality than individually produced essays. The participants of this study were 24 Korean EFL college students. For collaborative writing, the students were paired based on a similar writing proficiency level. A total of 106 essays―three collaboratively produced essays and another three individually produced essays of each student ―were compared in terms of fluency, accuracy, complexity, and essay score. The results showed that collaborative writing was better than individual writing in terms of fluency, complexity, and essay score, while the results for accuracy were mixed. In the case of both higher and lower level students, the results were similar; the collaborative writings of higher and lower level students were better than their individual writings with respect to fluency, complexity, and essay score although the results for accuracy were mixed. The findings of this study may benefit writing teachers who want to adopt computer-supported collaborative writing in their writing classroom.

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