| dc.description.abstract | Collaborative writing is the interactive process between people to complete one single document collaboratively. Comparing to individual writing, its advantage is that it can not only save time and energy but also combine writers’ knowledge. People pay more and more attention to this writing method and we can tell from the following information. Academy and industry use collaborative writing in a great quantity to complete researches or papers. 85% documents produced from office or college have at least two authors. The report from Northern America also shows that the 9 out of 10 documents that complete by CEOs are part of the team reports. Getting rid of individual working, collaborative writing focuses on collaboration which is one of the main spirits in Web 2.0.
In the popularity of collaborative writing, there are many related tools been developed. Wiki, for example, is a writing plateform suitable for group writing in the era of Web 2.0. In order to understand the effect on collaborative writing of Wiki, we use laboratory experiment and take college freshmen as samples trying to explore the effect on writing output under different writing situations (face to face, synchronous and distributed, asynchronous and distributed) and different writing tools (Wiki website and MS Word). The research shows that:
1. In the situation of face to face collaborative writing, the participation, inner quality, outer quality and satisfaction of using Wiki website are significantly higher than those using MS Word but not for document length.
2. In the situation of synchronous and distributed collaborative writing, the participation, inner quality and satisfaction of using Wiki website are significantly higher than those using MS Word but not for document length and outer quality.
3. In the situation of asynchronous and distribued collaborative writing, the participation, inner quality and satisfaction of using Wiki website are significantly higher than those using MS Word but not for document length and outer quality.
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