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http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052901u.htm

A British University Uses a Murder Mystery to Teach the Craft of Online Writing
MICHAEL ARNONE

A project at Nottingham Trent University, in Britain, is bringing writers together from around the world to create a murder mystery online. The exercise, titled "M is for Nottingham?" offers online-writing students and the general public the chance to learn firsthand how to collaborate online to create narratives, says Sue Thomas, artistic director for the trAce Online Writing Centre at the university. The center provides an online forum where writers can collaborate on experiments in online writing. Through its Online Writing School, the center provides accredited courses over the Internet to students in 111 countries....

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