Blog 4

I thought this piece was interesting because it showed the differences and uniqueness of how students write. I enjoyed reading about their explanation of "patchwriting". Their explanation was "a practice that involves individuals stringing together multiple authorial voices and sources then adding their own voices to the conversation". I think their definition is correct and I also think students do use this form of writing. Something new I learned was that collaborative writing is rare. I never thought of it much, or tried it, but I definitely sounds hard. This piece helped me understand how wiki's are made and how they are put together by all the people who add to it. I liked when they talked about how any social space must follow two guidelines. Those helped me understand wiki's more also. I could relate when they said "we do explore the ways wiki can encourage students to move beyond traditional notions of ownership and academic writing into more collaborative public discursive practices. I do think this piece was probably hard for these authors to collaboratly write together because everyone has a different opion of things and I think thats the hardest part about writing things together. However, they did a good job and it came together well.