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In current writing research, collaboration1 is considered an important feature of writing in professional settings (Couture & Rymer, 1989; Ede & Lunsford, 1990). Collaboration often means negotiating and reaching consensus about issues at stake with parties involved. Establishing consensus goes on, to a large extent, by means of text: (parts of) documents are written and revised in order to satisfy the participants. Writers of such ‘compromise texts’ have to mould, so to speak, the text until consensus has been reached on a final version of the document at hand.
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van der Mast, N.P. (1996). Adjusting Target Figures Downwards: On the Collaborative Writing of Policy Documents in the Dutch Government. In: Sharples, M., van der Geest, T. (eds) The New Writing Environment. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1482-6_4
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