The discourse of collaborative creative writing: Peer collaboration as a context for mutual inspiration

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-202

  Vass, Eva ^a   Littleton, Karen ^b   Miell, Dorothy ^b   Jones, Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative creativity; Creative writing; Socio cultural theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 56949098413     PISSN: 18711871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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