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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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

in Bibtex Style

@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