expected to review the correction or the feedback together as a group. After getting feedback from another group, students in groups edit by
making correction in idea and development, organization, sentence structure, spelling, vocabulary, punctuation and capitalization. They may delete irrelevant
sentences and rearrange ideas to improve the organization. The students in groups look at their writing and consider what improvement might be made. They also
can suggest changes if they are needed.
4. Final Product
After students revise and edit their writing, the teacher asks the students to write the best version of their product. Students re-write their writing by taking
accounts any comment, correction, and suggestion given by another group. Then, their final product hand in to the teacher.
5. Teacher Evaluation
After the student do the four stages in writing, the teacher gives evaluation. In this step, the teacher gives comments and feedback to the students.
The teacher focuses on commenting on idea, sentence structure, spelling, organization, vocabulary, and capitalization and punctuation. The students are
expected to review their correction and feedback. If the students still have the problem related to the corrections, the teacher and the students discuss the
problems together.
d. Advantages and Disadvantages of Collaborative Writing
Chin 1996 quotes that collaborative writing is an area where group ware may provide significant benefit. It allows students to simultaneous work on
different portions of the same document and or to review and critique the written work of others. The writing product may be better because in the writing process
they do some steps such as sharing ideas and thoughts, evaluating their group writing, and getting feedback from other’s groups as well.
In writing collaboratively, more students take part in the writing process. Having different perspective is important in commenting the result, so the more
people looking at the writing, the higher the likelihood that mistakes will be indentified and improvements will be made.
Another advantage of collaborative writing is it increases the amount of combined knowledge of the students when they are working together. In areas of
intelligence where one person is weak and others are strong, the collective intelligence of a group of students can be a powerful resource. Students who have
better knowledge can help others to do the work. It can be concluded that collaborative writing is an effective way to teach
writing to the students . It incorporates students’ knowledge, and problem solving
abilities into the process of writing. Though the use of specific strategies, guidelines and facilitative activities, students are able to improve upon the steps of
the writing process: planning, drafting, editing and final drafting in a collaborative manner that encourages interpersonal communication, cooperation and
management.
In spite of the fact that there are some advantages of collaborative writing technique in the teaching and learning process. Collaborative writing technique
has some disadvantages as well. Firstly, the class is noisy. Collaborative writing involves some discussion
where the students talk about their idea and opinion. The discussion begins get louder and students are raising their voice. Consequently, the class is likely noise.
When students are working in groups, the teacher must keep their voices at a normal level. The teacher must be consistent in enforcing the noise levels that she
expects from the students. She must ensure that the noise does not get out of control. She sets reasonable limits if she or he wants students to learn how to
manage their own noise. Secondly, if the students are not matched up well i.e. high students
together, low students together, or a higher student with a low student but they do not work well together group work will not be valuable. The ability of the
students to work in this way needs to be taken into consideration since collaborative writing requires contributions of skills from each and every member
of the group. For that reason, the groups must be carefully selected to ensure students can work fruitfully.
B. Relevant Studies
There are several relevant studies related to the collaborative writing technique to improve students’ writing skills. One of the researchers who
conducted the research about collaborative writing technique is Supiani 2011. She implemented collaborative writing technique in order to improve students
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