A collaborative discussion is a group of people identifying factors in an issue. To evaluate a collaborative discussion may include the following factors: the discussion must include others; develop a sense of audience that others will be scrutinizing your information; learning about writing conventions with peers; focusing on readers' expectations and not just rules; improving the writer's analysis techniques; being able to answers others' questions about material; improving their prose by teaching it to others.
The discussion should be able to consider information or issues by many of them and everybody should have their words for speaking. It should have a sense of audience and people in the group must be able to learn about how they can write the conventions with peers.
Through these conventions, they must focus on the ones who are reading and about their expectations. It should improve the techniques of writing and improve their writing or literature material.
The speaker can use serious tones in their voice when there is a very serious part to discuss. They can use hand gestures to explain something, facial expressions help lighten the mood sometimes. Discussions are sometimes stressful, so doing stuff to lighten the mood is very helpful sometimes.
When talking about issues in cultures, cities, etc. you must include lists of what some of the issues are. In that list, you must have some sort of explanation as to why these are issues that need to be resolved, what these issues are, or why these issues are important.
For example:
In today’s world, American Indians suffer more than they ever have before. The Natives suffered during the 1700’s when the settlers came over, but because the numbers are becoming so low in how many natives are left, the amount of racism is in the world at the moment, they’re facing more problems than ever before. Here are some examples and reasonings behind this.
Less Educated
Native Americans are less likely to go to college due to the fact that most of them are attending high schools that don’t offer college placement courses. They also have family members who have not attended college and due to that, they don’t go to college.
*Unemployed and poverty
If the natives can’t go to college, then they can’t get a good job to support themselves or their family. People discriminate against natives, so depending on who is going to hire them, who their boss is, etc may have something to do with it.
*Poor Quality Housing
If you can’t get a job, if you’re discriminated against, then you’re most likely going to live in a less than desirable home. It might get colder than it should during the winter due to no insolation and/or no heating units. It might get warmer than it should in the summer due to no insolation and/or no air conditioning units in the home. The home might not have the best plumbing system, so flooding might occur. There might not be very good electricity in the home, so you might not be able to run that many appliances at once or on one electrical current.
*Inadequate Health Care
If you can’t get a job, don’t make very much money, etc. then you can’t get very good health care or none for that matter. If you can’t get any health care, then when you get sick you either have to pay out of pocket for the doctor visit, which can be very expensive, or you can’t go to the doctor at all and end up dying if it gets too serious. With that being said, not being able to go to the doctor and not having insurance to pay for medications, doctor visits, etc. then death and the spreading of diseases is very common. With those two things, then the amount of Native Americans goes down significantly.
All of the issues stated above are issues that can be talked about in a collaborative discussion. Whether it be people arguing that these aren’t very important or that these issues should be on the top of the list to solve, not just for the Natives, but for everyone.
