A Movie Review

For this weeks assignment, we learned about collaborative writing and wrote a movie review. Arda, Mert and I decided on The Machinist (2004), starring Christian Bale, who is actually one of my favorite actors.

We actually had 2 weeks of time for this project so all of us had more than enough of time to ingest and analyze the movie. We used Google Docs for the whole project which is a program that lets everyone in the group to edit and view the paper, as well as peers to comment on it, which we also did for another group.

We each wrote our own seperate reviews first, picked the best parts from them and combined them in Google Docs while adding a few extra things and correcting mistakes in the process.

I found the app very user friendly and easy to use just like Google's other products. The ability to give specific permissions to people like viewing, commenting and editing makes collaborative writing very easy. The option to comment on particular words or the whole paper is also very neat.

Collaborative writing allows every member of the group to work in unison, fix each others mistakes and create something that every member contributes to. It can be used in a classroom environment where writing skills are to be improved and teamwork is to be encouraged.

I provided a screenshot of our review as well as the peer comments below. You can view Arda and Mert's blogs by clicking on their names.