A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE WRITING - A Business Process Model

Peter Henderson, Nishadi De Silva

2006

Abstract

Narratives have been used in the past to enhance technical documents such as research proposals by implementing a single-user writing tool called CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support). This study has now been extended to collaborative writing (CW); another area that can greatly benefit from a narrative-based writing tool. Before implementing such an asynchronous, multi-user system, however, it was imperative to do a concrete design for it. Therefore, after studying existing CW tools and strategies, a concise business process (BP) model was designed to describe the process of narrative-based CW. This paper introduces narrative-based CW for technical authors, the BP model for it and discusses the benefits of such an implementation on particular areas of research, such as the development of Grid applications.

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Henderson P. and De Silva N. (2006). A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE WRITING - A Business Process Model . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-44-3, pages 166-173. DOI: 10.5220/0002462901660173


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Peter Henderson and Nishadi De Silva},
title={A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE WRITING - A Business Process Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={166-173},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002462901660173},
isbn={978-972-8865-44-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - A NARRATIVE APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE WRITING - A Business Process Model
SN - 978-972-8865-44-3
AU - Henderson P.
AU - De Silva N.
PY - 2006
SP - 166
EP - 173
DO - 10.5220/0002462901660173