This paper implements a dynamic (i.e. temporal and local) research design for collaborative digital writing (CDW) in writing assignments in higher education. This research design builds on my paper “Temporality revisited: Dynamicity issues in collaborative digital writing research”, published in this journal (Engerer 2020). The design identifies current state-of-the-art approaches to digital writing and introduces 1) the components of text (the process and products of writing and learning communication), 2) external variables such as learning orientations and group composition, 3) an intermediate layer of time management that is related to organizing the assignment, and 4) the sphere of knowledge construction. The main modification, however, is the addition of four features specifically connected to time-related aspects: 5) micro-analysis, 6) dynamicity, 7) writer relevance and 8) source status. This dynamized research design is applied in a study of writing assignments carried out by the author with students of information science in the spring term of 2016. It is demonstrated how the temporal organization of a CDW process can be visualized and how central concepts such as Task structure, Reference structure and Final target structure are construed, operationalized and dynamically related to each other. Furthermore, a real-time analysis of sequential concept building is provided. The discussion shows that the study integrates all the above elements 1)-8) of a dynamic research design for CDW, although to different degrees. The study presented here can provide a general background for designing research in CDW and can inspire CDW researchers to capture in their research designs the dynamic, time-related features in CDW.

本文在高等教育写作作业中为协作数字写作（CDW）实现了动态（即时间和局部）研究设计。该研究设计以我的论文“重新审视温度：协作数字写作研究中的动力学问题”为基础（Engerer 2020）。该设计确定了当前数字写作的最新方法，并介绍了1）文本的组成部分（写作和学习交流的过程和产品），2）外部变量，例如学习方向和小组组成，3）与安排任务有关的时间管理的中间层，以及4）知识领域。不过，主要的修改是增加了四个与时间相关的方面的功能：5）微观分析，6）动态性，7）作者相关性和8）源状态。这种动态的研究设计应用于作者在2016年春季与信息科学专业学生进行的写作作业研究中。它展示了如何可视化CDW流程的时间组织以及诸如Task之类的中心概念。结构，参考结构和最终目标结构是相互解释，可操作和动态相关的。此外，提供了对顺序概念构建的实时分析。讨论表明，该研究集成了CDW动态研究设计的所有上述要素1）-8），尽管程度不同。