Wikis as an effective group writing tool: A study in Taiwan

Online Information Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-103

  Shu, Wesley ^a   Chuang, Yu Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Collaborative writing; Collaborative writing tools; Group writing; Personal communication networks; Web 2.0; Wiki

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; COLLABORATIVE WRITING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DOCUMENT LENGTH; FACE TO FACE; INTERACTIVE PROCESS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MS-WORD; WEB 2.0; WIKI; WRITING TOOLS;

PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; WEB SERVICES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84857711416     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521211206980     Document Type: Article

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