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Item Open Access GROUP WRITER A WORD PROCESSOR FOR COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT PREPARATION(1991-06-01) Malcolm, NicholasGroup-writing, in which a document is produced jointly by a team of writers, occurs widely in both science and industry. Group-writing is both time and labor intensive, and is not specifically supported by current generation word processors. Consequently there is much interest in developing computer-based tools to support group-writing. This thesis surveys some of the issues behind group-writing, its occurrence in the scientific community, and cognitive aspects of writing, in order to derive some requirements which should be satisfied by such a system. A prototype group-writing system is then presented, which can serve as a basis for further experiments on how best to provide computer support for group-writing.Item Open Access Group writer: a word processor for collaborative document preparation(1991) Malcolm, Nicholas; Gaines, Brian R.Item Open Access A WORD PROCESSOR SUPPORTING GROUP-WRITING(1991-02-01) Gaines, Brian R.; Malcolm, NicholasGroup-writing, in which a document is jointly produced by a team of writers, occurs widely in science and in industry. There are now a number of products and research tools designed to support group-writing teams. Most, however, required use of non-mainstream word-processing systems, and usually assume that full information is continuously available through a network to mediate and avoid conflicts. This paper reports research on a group-writing tool that deviates as little as possible from conventional word processors and assumes only intermittent network connections for document exchange and conflict resolution.