Full Description
Writing Partnerships in Higher Education offers a timely account of practical strategies and personal insights designed to help with the process of writing with others. This book articulates the unspoken 'rules of the game' for developing effective writing partnerships and brokering new writing networks at individual, institutional and strategic levels.
Whether writing with students or supervisors, co-writing papers, setting up writing groups, editing book volumes or supporting writing partnership practices, this book provides a one-stop-shop for all types of collaborative writing endeavours relevant to academic writing for publication. Featuring contributions from a range of scholars who offer their insights, experience and frameworks for effective writing partnerships, the carefully curated chapters are organised into three easily navigated themes:
Section one: Insights from writing at the coalface
Section two: Cultivating writing cultures
Section three: Writing with others in creative and innovative ways
By addressing all aspects of writing collaborations and partnerships, this book is a must-have guide for any academic writer looking to start co-writing themselves, lead and support the co-writing of others, or expand and develop new practices in their writing partnerships.
Contents
Foreword - Beyond the Solitary Scholar: Writing Partnerships in a Complex Academic Ecosystem
Pejman Habibe
Section 1: insights from writing at the coalface
Chapter 1 - The emotional labour of collaborative writing
Verity Aiken and Lin Norton
Chapter 2 - Pitfalls, pleasures and partnerships: Journeys in collaborative writing
Jonathan Parker
Chapter 3 - Together and apart: successful collaboration over time and distance
Elly Phillips, Fiona Holland, Jane Montague, Steph Archer
Chapter 4 - Writing without Borders: reflections on co-authoring with international students
Tina Byrom
Chapter 5 - Writing collaboratively in groups: reflections on twenty years experiences of international collaborative writing groups about the scholarship of teaching and learning
Mick Healey and Ruth L Healey
Section 2: Cultivating writing cultures
Chapter 6 - How can we sustain the benefits of writing in social spaces?
Rowena Murray
Chapter 7 - An Ecosystem for collaborative writing in academia: What gets it started and what keeps it going?
Tanya Hathaway and Namrata Rao
Chapter 8 - Growing Community Outside the Academy Walls
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson
Chapter 9 - "See you on WhatsApp": Writing groups in a digital age
Jessica Heuser
Chapter 10 - Hand-forged Texts and Ties with Writers: Studying Meanings Associated with Social Academic Writing
Camilla Lindholm and Emilia Luukka
Section 3: Writing with others in creative and innovative ways
Chapter 11 - Writing Together
Ron Scapp
Chapter 12 - Our connected experiences: Accounts of writing partnership underpinned by technology
Lydia Arnold with Emily Chapman-Waterhouse, Jane Headley, Sam Elkington, Sue Lee and Kate Cuthbert
Chapter 13 - A conversation in the digital space about creative, impactful ways to frame qualitative data insights
Lia Blaj-Ward and Stuart Perrin
Chapter 14 - Conversation-writing: Small Stories Arising Between Spoken Word and Text
Natasha Mayo and CJ O'Neill
Conclusion - From Ivory Towers to Olive Branches: Editors' Reflections
Verity Aiken and Lin Norton
