Project Proposal

For my project I would like to use either a Wiki builder or perhaps just Google Docs to facilitate a collaborative writing project. This would be designed to familiarize advanced level students with a writing genre (probably news articles). After reading examples of this genre students would work together to build an outline and divide up responsibility for writing the various segments amongst themselves. They would then be assigned one of their peer's a sections to provide editing feedback using a protocol established in class. I would also consider doing a genre of fiction asking them to do an exquisite corpse story. The ease with which students can collaborate, the ability to track changes and comments, and the ease with which students can edit one another's work would make this CALL tool preferable to paper and pencil alternatives. The task would be designed to encourage process writing, help students learn the conventions of the genre including lexical items and collocations, and to practice editing conventions that bring their attention to target forms.