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.
This book offers a timely account of practical strategies and personal insights designed to help with the process of writing with others. It articulates the unspoken ‘rules of the game’ for developing effective writing partnerships and brokering new writing networks at individual, institutional and strategic levels.
Foreword - Beyond the Solitary Scholar: Writing Partnerships in a
Complex Academic Ecosystem
Pejman Habibie
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 and Steph Archer
Chapter 4 - Writing without Borders: reflections on co-authoring with
international students
Tina Byrom
Chapter 5 - Writing collaboratively in groups: reflections on 25 years'
experiences of international collaborative writing groups
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
initiaties and sustains it?
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: A critical perspective on writing with others
Ron Scapp
Chapter 12 - Our connected experiences: Accounts of writing partnership
underpinned by technology
Lydia Arnold, Emily Chapman-Waterhouse, Kate Cuthbert, Sam Elkington, Jane
Headley and Sue Lee
Chapter 13 - A thinking (and writing) partnership 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 ONeill
From Ivory Towers to Olive Branches: Editors Reflections
Verity Aiken and Lin Norton
Verity Aiken is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Lin Norton was Professor Emerita of Pedagogical Research, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
