Industrial software development I Y highly collaborative and multidisciplinary [I] [2/ 131 [4]. Technical writers have crucial expertise needed to help shape and change documentation code, and interfaces created throughout the sojht'are development process 151 [6/ 171; but often they lack the training and skills necessary to fully use the tools, methods, and processes of software engineering. If technical writers can be given training and access to these tools, methods, and processe5, software development teams may be able to benefit from greater multidisciplinary collaboration between technical writers and software engineers and thus create better products. Bused on our ongoing research into curricular design to encourage such collaboration,' we first describe curricular designs we have tested, we offer preliminary recommendations for encouraging collaborative and multidisciplinary software development education, we describe our current curricular model for encofiraging multidisciplinary collaboration in softwiire development, and we conclude by pointing tc the need for a model for collaborative software I Ievelopment.