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A cliché holds that committees cannot write well. Often they do not for their members do many other things, a deadline presses on them, and they defer to one another, wanting to avoid offense and complications. They word passages to gloss over differences and insert complications to suit the special tic of their more vocal members: the document bloats and acquires internal contradictions hidden by plastic prose and at the deadline it adds itself to the bog[1] of group-think. Those who confuse collaborative writing in a digital commons with composition by committee expect from it the worst.
Can collaborative writing achieve excellence in usage, conveying powerful ideas with clarity and grace?
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- ↑ A piece of wet spongy ground, consisting chiefly of decayed or decaying moss and other vegetable matter, too soft to bear the weight of any heavy body upon its surface; a morass or moss. Oxford English Dictionary
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