Argumentation as Negotiation in Electronic Collaborative Writing

The goal of our research is to analyse the relationship between communication and task execution in computer supported collaborative learning. The current paper is about a collaborative writing situation in which pairs of students have to produce an argumentative text, while collaborating via an electronic network. In our perspective, this is a task from which students are supposed to learn about the concepts that are discussed and written about. Learning happens because in this situation participants negotiate about text content. We will specifically address the issue of how argumentation contributes to the knowledge negotiation process in collaborative electronic writing: to what extent is text content negotiated? What forms of negotiation can be observed? Are there relationships between the types of negotiation and the content that is discussed?

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