Joe Moses and Jason Tham According to the World Economic Forum, “talents like empathy, adaptability, and a knack for communicating your ideas” are skills companies need: As companies grapple with digitization, automation, and constant change, creating a culture where people can communicate their ideas is crucial to competitiveness. …

How to overcome slanxiety in every collaborative writing project Joe Moses and Jason Tham It happens every time: during collaborative writing projects someone inevitably raises a concern about someone else who is slacking. “They’re not pulling their weight.” “They’re always late.” “I’m worried about X not getting their work done and I’m going to have to do more than…

Jason Tham and Joe Moses Whether you’re interested in a freelance or a full-time writing position, knowing how design thinking works will make you a more valuable applicant than competitors who only pitch their writing skills or content specialty. Why? Because hiring managers want problem solvers. We’ve been to countless…

Joe Moses and Jason Tham — Is anything worse than team writing projects that sound like this? Students Where are we? I thought you were doing that. You spent three hours? That section is already done. Where’s Alex? Where’s Taylor’s feedback? Where’s Pat’s research? What happened to my beautiful paragraph? Why are we doing this? …

By Jason Tham and Joe Moses In our previous articles, we described a framework for collaborative writing that confronts the traditional writing process, focuses on cross-functional engagement, and creates specific roles and tasks that support effective collaboration. …

Joe Moses and Jason Tham We know that assigning roles in team project is effective. People who research collaborative writing (CW) have said for a long time that assigning specific roles and tasks to teammates makes teams more productive because doing so eliminates the time, effort, and confusion that follow…

Joe Moses and Jason Tham We recently posted a piece whose upshot was that instructors should stop using a writing process designed for individual writers when assigning collaborative writing projects. Collaborative writing (CW) is so different from individual writing that, in addition to the writing process, the environment in which…

Joe Moses and Jason Tham It’s no wonder so many students don’t like team writing. Often given little instruction in how to write collaboratively, students are left with little more direction than wherever their anxieties point them. Students report feelings of anxiety about measuring up. They worry about losing track…