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Recently, collaborative writing is considered as one of effective ways to teach writing and to promote  students  to have good writing skill. In Indonesia itself, the implementation of collaborative writing to teach writing is raising for intermediate level and advanced level students. However, there is an obstacle in implementing collaborative writing dealing with the  limitation  of place and time. Therefore, Suwantatri and Wichadee conducted a study to make collaborative writing implementation more effective and efficient. They found  that  by using online open discussion, for example Google Docs, it can solve the problem of limited time and place. Students can participate in collaborative writing whenever and  wherever  they are. Compared to face-to-  collaborative writing, the use of Google Docs in collaborative writing can improve students’ writing skill better because they can have opportunities to read, review, and correct others’ work that. Besides, students can gain know

The third article I read is about the students’ perception in collaborative writing. Differ from the previous articles that mostly talk about the benefits of collaborative writing, this article shows me one of the crucial factors contributing the successful of collaborative writing that is students’ perception.  Many researches has been conducted to investigate how good collaborative writing improves students' writing skill through peer-correction that they apply in the process of writing.  This kind of studies only  focus on the improvement that students experience by participating in a collaborative writing without consider the students’ perception about collaborative writing itself. In fact, students’ perception is one of crucial aspects in the writing process because it also contributes on their writing successful.  A study investigating students’ perception on online collaborative writing conducted by Ballester and Cabello proves that a question whether collabor

An article written by Christopher Mulligas and Russell Garofalo shows me that collaborative writing is effective way to teach writing not only because of the writing improvements that  the students can experience but also their better psichological condition after having collaborative writing activities. Collaborative writing is a teaching writing method in which the procedures or steps in the process of writing are designed for collaborative work. Collaborative writing process have numerous effective benefits for learner for both their language competence and their psychological aspects. Therefore, to make it successfully help EFL students to have good writing, a set of teaching procedures dealing with the writing process must be applied. Mulligas and Garofalo proposes some steps and factors should be considered in the writing process. The first step is choosing partners which can be done based on the teacher’s consideration the students’ willing. secondly, the students brain

This article narrows the topic as collaborative writing in process based writing.  it means that every step of writing process was done collaboratively. By writing collaboratively, students can experience each process better that individual writing because some steps which are difficult for them  such as gathering ideas, how to bring ideas into writing,  writing cohesively,  and many others will be solved collaboratively. Thus, beside of their writing skill, their critical thinking and social competence will be improved as well.  In implementing collaborative writing in process based writing, teacher should consider the media that the students comfortable with. Both hand-writing and digital writing are suitable for this method. Besides, during the writing process, teacher should guide the students in order to avoid unequal writing work of the students. Teacher may also help students in dealing any problems in the writing process, for example, providing scaffolding to enable st