If you or your students are not comfortable with collaboratively written papers, another option is to experiment with collaborative data-gathering and library research. Students can then decide on an individual thesis to develop from the variety of materials they have gathered. Below , we provide some materials that we have used in our own classrooms. We hope that they will be useful to you. Typical Conference Group Procedures 1.
Students exchange papers the class period before the conference.
Others may join in, but one person leads the discussion. Drafts and comments are stored in notebooks for checking. This is one sequence that we have used successfully for Conference Groups. Probably the most important step is having the writer specify the kind of help he or she needs. A discussion of the kind of help one might ask for is helpful on the day students exchange papers.