Why Collaborative Writing is Important

  • 87% of industry uses collaborative writing

  • studies have shown that people working together collaboratively produce better

  • it's historically precedented: from medieval glosses and annotations (example 1, example 2) to Chinese literature (no copyright in China up until the 20th century) through Romantic literature (Wordsworth and Coleridge) through Eliot and Pound, Carver and Lish;