The phrase 'intellective' highlights the cognitive flavour of the task. Especially in scientific writing, the correct answer is based on the consensus of a set of 'judges' who can reasonably be regarded as experts on the specific issue. Among other issues, they describe collaborative writing as involving negotiation about the meaning of facts and as demanding for consensus as to an appropriate solution. In the upcoming paragraph I will show why writing is such a difficult task. In providing support for collaborative writing a number of difficulties must be faced.
Writing is an open-ended design task.
In a writing process there is no fixed goal, nor are there formal transitions between states. Also, writing is under-constrained. There are innumerable possible texts that could fit a writer's goals and possible actions that a writer might take at any stage. According to Kraut et. All these points stress the cognitive and creative aspects of writing.