Andrea Lunsford is advocating for collaborative learning because there are positive outcomes to collaboration. Through collaboration, a group combines reading, talking, writing and thinking to achieve synthetic and analytical skills. But true collaboration is difficult because tutors, teachers, and students need eachother to achieve common goals. The main concern is if the collaboration can truly be fair and equal? It rejects the traditional top to down model of informational hierarchy. Kenneth Bruffee emphasizes the importance of collabortaion. Most students have difficulty in adapting to the "traditional" or "normal" standards of the college classroom. Thought is very much parrallel to engaging in a conversation... and a community "generates and maintains" conversation... which means that a community can generate and maintain thoughts... and knowledge can be generated and maintained by a community through peers. Maybe the teacher can facilitate and maintain a community so that the students can engage in a conversation so that they evaluate and analyze knowledge.
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