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The Essential Collaborative
Writing Toolkit
A framework for evaluating the new
collaborative writing environments
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Collaborative writings importance
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Collaborative writings importance
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The collaborative writing toolkit
The Fundamentals
satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications
technically agnostic
free of geographic and temporal constraints
Role Control
control of collaborators permissions
protects collaborators privacy
Version Control
reliably maintains a unique version of the collaborators document at all times
tracks the documents development, including who made changes and
highlighting differences between the text of various versions of the document
Synchroneity
Awareness
Communication
commenting
chat
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The Fundamentals
satisfactorily simulates the most common word
processing applications
technically agnostic
free of geographic and temporal constraints
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The Fundamentals
Satisfactorily Simulates Common Word Processing Applications
Google Documents Interface
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The Fundamentals
Technically Agnostic
Google Documents Compatibility Chart
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Free of Geographic and Temporal Constraints
The Fundamentals
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Role Control
Control of Collaborators Permissions
Google Documents Role Control Screen
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Synchroneity
Collaborators writing together in real-time in Google Documents
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Awareness
Various ways awareness is imparted to collaborators in Google Documents
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CommunicationEmail
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Communication
Commenting
Sidebar annotations in Google Documents
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Communication
Chat
Chat feature in Google Documents
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The collaborative writing toolkit
The Fundamentals
satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications
technically agnostic
free of geographic and temporal constraints
Role Control
control of collaborators permissions
protects collaborators privacy Version Control
reliably maintains a unique version of the collaborators document at all times
tracks the documents development, including who made changes and
highlighting differences between the text of various versions of the document
Synchroneity
Awareness
Communication
commenting
chat
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