Readin#4

In "Writing for Emerging Organizations" Doheny-Farina explores how social and organizational contexts influence writing and how writing influences social and organizational contexts. Doheny-Farina observes and collects data from a start-up company called Microware. His findings show that the writing of a business plan molded the company into what it became.

The interaction that went on during collabrative writing of the business plan, allowed the workers that participated to have influence over who did what, and who was in charge of what. Basically, by writing the business plan together they were able to alter the company's organizational structure and to resolve conflicts that they had in the past under one main decision-maker.

The most interesting subject that Doheny-Farina correlates with the Microware findings in this article is the 'Implications For Teaching.' He states that collabrative writing would positively infulence many settings, in the classroom being a perfect example. A teacher should try to put students in group situations where they will have differing points of view. The students are then required to learn to deal with and understand the other students' views. The group must then come up with a project where their different points of view are represented or 'integrated.' This teaches student how to work better alongside a diverse group of people, and in the long run will greatly influence how they interact in future workplaces.