"collaborative essay" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a paper or essay written by two or more people. For example, "We worked together on a collaborative essay for our English class."
As if to acknowledge the point, a collaborative catalog essay by the curators (Catherine de Zegher, Luis Camnitzer, Susette Min and Marisa White) urges us to read the show as a meditation on globalism and its discontents, with a particular focus on the breakdown of barriers between the inside and outside, the public and the private, the foreign and the domestic.
Students who experienced Collaborative Reasoning wrote essays with better-developed arguments than comparable children who did not experience Collaborative Reasoning.
Example: An English teacher using online file-sharing and collaboration applications to allow real-time, collaborative editing of an essay.
Admissions offices must also stop accepting application essays that are collaborative efforts -- having been edited by parents, teachers, counselors or hired editors.
—Idoru A "sublime" book, according to aerialmeg, Infinite City is "a collaborative atlas of San Francisco, including essays and maps ranging from Monarch butterflies to Hitchcock's films to blues clubs, and makes a terrific guide map to the city's possibilities", in the words of writer Anisse Gross.
Other collaborative activities such collaborative writing (answers to questions, short essays etc).
Aside from an admiration for collaborative art practice, the two pay homage to pioneers of archival film essay, cinema povera, and found footage films.
It features a great long essay by Morin about the making of the film (and, true to the collaborative directorial partnership, includes Rouch's notes on Morin's text), an essay by Rouch, a transcript of the entire film, a transcript of selected outtakes, commentaries by participants, and a generous selection of contemporaneous reviews.
I'm thinking that, combined with your collaborative work as a conceptual artist, your manifestos and declarations with the INS and your essays and so on, it's all part of some grand scheme.
Flavorwire: "At most every turn, in fact, The Story of My Teeth breaks faith with the prevailing notion of a collaborative work as a sideline and asserts itself as a fleet, allusive, often humorous novel-essay".
