Reflection: Collaborative Writing

My primary concern with this reading really started on the first page with Bruffee's three principles of collaboration. I can't get over the feeling that thought and conversation don't accomplish the same goals and thus do not operate in the same way. Thought allows clarification within the scope of knowledge or experience that is unique to the thinker, whereas conversation allows clarification among the pool of knowledge collective among those conversing. Thought is collaborative, but thinking is confined to that which is remembered by an individual...conversation has the advantage of several memories. Perhaps, then, what is meant is that both are a form of conversation, but not the same thing. One is a conversation with one's own memory while the other is a conversation between memories.