Procedures


 * Directions of the collaborative writing project:**
 * 1) Students form a group of 4 to 5 members for **the collaborative writing project**.
 * 2) One of the members needs to be the organizer to make a new space in her/his wiki for the group members to join.
 * 3) The Group wiki homepage needs to have the following information:
 * 4) each member’s Chinese name, Student ID and the user name in the wikispaces,
 * 5) title of the story,
 * 6) cast (The characters in the story),
 * 7) summary of the story,
 * 8) scenes and the assigned member's Chinese name.
 * 9) The space menu needs to have the list of scenes and a page link called Online discussion for the leader to put the files of MSN discussion contents.


 * Schedule:**
 * **1st Week (Pre-writing 10%): Post the information needed for the homepage of the group Wikispaces --**
 * 1) title of the story (2%)
 * 2) characters and their characteristics (3%),
 * 3) summary of the story (3%),
 * 4) scenes and the assigned member's Chinese name (2%)


 * **2nd Week (Drafting 25%):**Each member posts the first draft of his/her assigned scene. In each scene, the assigned member needs to write
 * 1) the situation (5%),
 * 2) the dialogs of the characters (10%),
 * 3) the description of actions or background information (10%).


 * **3rd Week (Peer response 20%):** Each member response to the other group members’ scenes by giving compliments and suggestions in the discussion and by making annotations.
 * You can use the Revising PPT to ask questions to yourself or to your members' texts.
 * **4th Week (Self-revision 20%)**: Each member revises their own scene according to peer response, focusing on adding/deleting the contents (13%), and correcting the ungrammatical areas (7%).


 * **5th Week** **(Publishing 25%)**:
 * Each member first copies and pastes the previous 5-week team text of script to Word.
 * Afterward, you need to proofread the whole story (5%). Most of all, you need to add another scene (10%) to make it with a different ending so that the script story becomes your version. Because you are the publisher, you can change whatever you would like to publish (3%). You can add pictures for illustration.
 * Submit the Word file to PU E-Learning (2%).
 * Print the word file and make a book to present to the teacher as the Mid-term project (5%).
 * Remember to add a cover with the main editor of your name and names of your group members (1%).