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Book SynopsisWriting 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.Table of ContentsForeword  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

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Book SynopsisWriting 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.Table of ContentsForeword  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

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Book SynopsisWorking with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit.Trade Review“Among Digitized Manuscripts is well worth a read. The four practical chapters and the digital appendix are a resource that students and scholars wishing to work more effectively with digital manuscripts will return to as a reference.” Kelly Tuttle in Reviews “The combination of theoretic considerations with hands-on tutorials and personal experience from ‘the field’ is the result of van Lit’s previous work in the digital humanities and, at the same time, an attempt to provide fledgling digital scholars with everything they need.” Cornelius Berthold in Der Islam 98/2 (2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Manuscript World, Print World, Digital World  1 Three Worlds  2 Case Study 1: ABC for Book Collectors versus A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology  3 Case Study 2: A World Without Whom versus Do I Make Myself Clear?  4 Case Study 3: The Written, Printed, and Digital Koran  5 Consequences for Digitized Manuscripts 2 The Digital Materiality of Digitized Manuscripts  1 Stepping into the Digital World  2 Larger Than Life Digitized Manuscripts  3 The Intangible Aura of Material Manuscripts  4 What Are Digitized Manuscripts?  5 New Habits for Philologists in a Digital World 3 Digitized Manuscripts and Their Repositories, an Ethnography  1 Old Collections in Europe  2 New Collections in North America  3 Major Collections in the MENA Region  4 Notable Collections in Africa, the Levant, and Asia  5 A Grand Comparison of the Quality of Digital Surrogates  6 A Visual Comparison  7 Difference between Professional and Amateur Photos  8 The Future of Digital Manuscript Repositories 4 Paleography: Between Erudition and Computation  1 The Variety of Digital Paleographic Experience  2 Rise and Fall of Team Projects Funded by Grants  3 Drawing Ancient Symbols on a Tablet 5 Philology: Standards for Digital Editing  1 File Formats  2 Encoding of Text  3 Markup of Text  4 Intermezzo: Using the Right Editing Tool  5 Handling Images  6 Archiving and Publishing 6 Cataloging: From a Dusty Backroom to the World Wide Web  1 Field Research Workflow: From a Dusty Backroom to My Computer  2 Web Development: From My Computer to the World Wide Web  3 Structure: HTML  4 Content: JSON  5 Style: CSS  6 Interactivity: JavaScript  7 Productivity: Code Editor and Code Repository  8 Quantitative Analysis of the Collection 7 Codicology: Automated Analysis Using Python and OpenCV  1 Why Code?  2 Description of Case Study  3 Introduction to Python  4 Introduction to OpenCV  5 Step 1: Extraction of Images  6 Step 2: Analysis of an Image  7 Step 3: Running the Script over Large Numbers  8 Results 8 A Digital Orientalist Postscript. Among Digitized Manuscripts Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal methodological choices in Indigenous research in North-South relationships. This edited volume is a result of a research collaboration in four countries where Sámi people live. By taking the readers to diverse local discussions, the collection emphasizes communal responsibility and care as a key in doing Indigenous research. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Pigga Keskitalo, Ilona Kivinen, Britt Kramvig, Petter Morottaja, Eljas Niskanen, Torjer Olsen, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Hanna Outakoski, Attila Paksi, Jelena Porsanger, Aili Pyhälä, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Torkel Rasmussen, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Trond Trosterud and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Pigga Keskitalo, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Torjer Olsen 1 Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Torjer Olsen and Pigga Keskitalo 2 Sámi dutkama máttut: The Forerunners of Sámi Methodological Thinking  Jelena Porsanger and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari 3 Káfestallamin Cáfe Talks of the Indigenous Research Paradigm in Sámi Research  Pigga Keskitalo, Torkel Rasmussen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä 4 Developing Literacy Research in Sápmi  Hanna Outakoski 5 Decolonized Research-Storying: Bringing Indigenous Ontologies and Care into the Practices of Research Writing  Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Britt Kramvig and Aili Pyhälä 6 ‘Shared Remembering’ as a Relational Indigenous Method in Conceptualization of Sámi Women’s Leadership  Jelena Porsanger, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Ragnhild Lydia Nystad 7 Methodological Implications of the Project Čyeti čälled anarâškielân, ‘One Hundred Writers for Aanaar Saami’: Strengthening the Literacy of an Indigenous Language Community  Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Trond Trosterud, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Petter Morottaja and Eljas Niskanen 8 Reflections on Power Relations and Reciprocity in the Field While Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples  Attila Paksi and Ilona Kivinen 9 Kimapury Reflections: Values and Research Agendas in Amazonian Indigenous Research Relations  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Epilogue  Torjer Olsen, Pigga Keskitalo and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relational Sámi research approaches as well as reciprocal methodological choices in Indigenous research in North-South relationships. This edited volume is a result of a research collaboration in four countries where Sámi people live. By taking the readers to diverse local discussions, the collection emphasizes communal responsibility and care as a key in doing Indigenous research. Contributors are: Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä, Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Pigga Keskitalo, Ilona Kivinen, Britt Kramvig, Petter Morottaja, Eljas Niskanen, Torjer Olsen, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Hanna Outakoski, Attila Paksi, Jelena Porsanger, Aili Pyhälä, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti, Torkel Rasmussen, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Trond Trosterud and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Pigga Keskitalo, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Torjer Olsen 1 Contemporary Indigenous Research within Sámi and Global Indigenous Studies Contexts  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Torjer Olsen and Pigga Keskitalo 2 Sámi dutkama máttut: The Forerunners of Sámi Methodological Thinking  Jelena Porsanger and Irja Seurujärvi-Kari 3 Káfestallamin Cáfe Talks of the Indigenous Research Paradigm in Sámi Research  Pigga Keskitalo, Torkel Rasmussen, Rauna Rahko-Ravantti and Rauni Äärelä-Vihriälä 4 Developing Literacy Research in Sápmi  Hanna Outakoski 5 Decolonized Research-Storying: Bringing Indigenous Ontologies and Care into the Practices of Research Writing  Hanna Guttorm, Lea Kantonen, Britt Kramvig and Aili Pyhälä 6 ‘Shared Remembering’ as a Relational Indigenous Method in Conceptualization of Sámi Women’s Leadership  Jelena Porsanger, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Ragnhild Lydia Nystad 7 Methodological Implications of the Project Čyeti čälled anarâškielân, ‘One Hundred Writers for Aanaar Saami’: Strengthening the Literacy of an Indigenous Language Community  Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Trond Trosterud, Erika Katjaana Sarivaara, Petter Morottaja and Eljas Niskanen 8 Reflections on Power Relations and Reciprocity in the Field While Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples  Attila Paksi and Ilona Kivinen 9 Kimapury Reflections: Values and Research Agendas in Amazonian Indigenous Research Relations  Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Epilogue  Torjer Olsen, Pigga Keskitalo and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Index

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Book SynopsisThis study examines theological dissertations by international students accepted by major Austrian universities and shows that academic incompetence, plagiarism, and negligent supervision are seriously damaging theological institutions – in Europe and abroad. Some Catholic priests from developing countries receive theological doctorates in Austria by submitting substandard dissertations. Overwhelmed by culture shock and lacking proper academic guidance, these students resort to copying and manipulating data. Many go on to become church leaders at home. This study addresses the damage done by deficient dissertations.

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Book SynopsisIn American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology based on the biblical concept of koinonia, which would act as a 'foundational' model for future confessional, empirical, and practical efforts. To help form the proposed ecclesiology, Brown explores the ecclesiological views of George Fox and Robert Barclay, the adoption of the pastoral system, and the emergence of the Evangelical Friends Church. The ecclesiological writings of Miroslav Volf, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Hans Küng, Jennifer Buck, and C. Wess Daniels are also surveyed.

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