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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
