Critical Collaborative Communities

Academic Writing Partnerships, Groups, and Retreats
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41097-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching

Writing comprises a significant proportion of academic staff members’ roles. While academics have been acculturated to the notion of ‘publish or perish,’ they often struggle to find the time to accomplish writing papers and tend to work alone. The result can be a sense of significant stress and isolation around the writing process. Writing partnerships, groups, and retreats help mitigate these challenges and provide significant positive writing experiences for their members.

Critical Collaborative Communities describes diverse examples of partnerships from writing regularly with one or two colleagues to larger groups that meet for a single day, regular writing meetings, or a retreat over several days. While these approaches bring mutual support for members, each is not without its respective challenges. Each chapter outlines an approach to writing partnerships and interrogates its strengths and limitations as well as proposes recommendations for others hoping to implement the practice. Authors in this volume describe how they have built significant trusting relationships that have helped avoid isolation and have led to their self-authorship as academic writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Simmons, Nicola

Singh, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Pam Denicolo

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Nicola Simmons

Part 1: Writing Partnerships

1 Cheaper Than Therapy: The Unexpected Benefits and Challenges of an Academic Writing Partnership

Karen Julien and Jacqueline L. Beres

2 “We’ll Do Whate’er We List”: Growing, Creating, and Writing Together as Faculty of Difference

M. Soledad Caballero and Aimee Knupsky

3 Collaboration at a Distance: Exploring History, Communication, Trust and Socialization

Erik Blair and Georgette Briggs

4 Just Show Up: Reflections from a Motley Writing Group

Janel Seeley, Tia Frahm and Elizabeth Lynch

Part 2: Onsite Writing Retreats

5 Advancing the Writing of Academics: Stories from the Writing Group

Jennifer Lock, Yvonne Kjorlien, M. Gregory Tweedie, Roswita Dressler and Sarah Elaine Eaton

6 Faculty Writing Studio: A Place to Write

Remica Bingham-Risher and Joyce Armstrong

7 Campus-Wide, Non-Residential, Five-Day Faculty Writing Retreat: Partnerships Lead to a Sustainable Writing Program

Dannelle D. Stevens and Janelle Voegele

8 The Benefits of Writing Retreats Revisited

Genevieve Maheux-Pelletier, Heidi Marsh and Mandy Frake-Mistak

Part 3: Offsite Writing Retreats

9 Something Wicked This Way Comes: Wyrd Sisters, Collaborating In-the-Round

Lisa Dickson, Shannon Murray and Jessica Riddell

10 Writing Wild: Writing Partnerships That Fly

Cecile Badenhorst, Sarah Pickett and John Hoben

11 Creating and Sustaining a Community of Academic Writing Practice: The Multi-University Residential Academic Writing Retreat Model

Michelle K. McGinn, Sne.ana Ratkovi., Dragana Martinovic and Ruth McQuirter Scott

12 Writing about Writing: Collaborative Writing and Photographic Analyses from an Academic Writing Retreat

Kari-Lynn Winters, Natasha Wiebe and Mary Gene Saudelli

Part 4: Collaborative Writing Groups

13 Writing within an Academic Microculture: Making Our Practice Visible

Cheryl Jeffs, Carol Berenson, Patti Dyjur, Kimberley A. Grant, Frances Kalu, Natasha Kenny, Kiara Mikita, Robin Mueller and Lorelli Nowell

14 Supporting Writing Collaborations through Synchronous Technologies: Singing Our ssong about Working Together at a Distance

Michelle J. Eady, Corinne Green, Ashley B. Akenson, Briony Supple, Marian McCarthy, James Cronin and Jacinta McKeon

15 Growing the Canadian SoTL Community through a Collaborative Writing Initiative

Elizabeth Marquis and Nicola Simmons

16 Collaborative Writing: Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Partnerships as a Means of Identity Formation

Phillip Motley, Aysha Divan, Valerie Lopes, Lynn O. Ludwig, Kelly E. Matthews and Ana M. Tomljenovic-Berube

17 An International Interdisciplinary Writing Group: Perspectives on Building Partnerships and Developing Community

Barbara Kensington-Miller, Carolyn Oliver, Sue Morón-García, Karen Manarin, Earle Abrahamson, Nicola Simmons and Jessica Deshler

18 Creation, Critique, Consolidation

Nicola Simmons

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Nicola Simmons, Ph.D., Brock University, focuses on postsecondary pedagogy. She is co-editor of the Brill Sense Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching series, a 3M National Teaching Fellow, and holds a Brock Chancellor’s Chair for Teaching Excellence.

Ann Singh, M.Ed., Brock University, is a Project Management Professional (PMP) who is interested in adult education, lifelong learning, and mentorship. Ann teaches courses on project development and management and believes in extending learning beyond the classroom.