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building social writing opportunities for graduate students
xiii, 142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
"In recent years, graduate writing programs have increasingly paid attention to the benefits of writing initiatives that harness the power of peer presence, interaction, and collectivity. These social-by-design writing initiatives - which could be boot camps, writing groups, write-alongs, retreats, peer review sessions, or show-up-and-write gatherings - rely on two central contentions: that graduate writers need support with the practical challenges of writing productivity and that writing alongside others can be a transformative experience for graduate writers. Social writing opportunities offer uniquely dynamic environments in which graduate students can develop their writing processes. Writing Together gathers accounts from graduate writing professionals about how social writing programs are imagined and delivered. It surveys the motivations, rationales, evaluation strategies, and structures that underpin these initiatives in order to create a practical resource for writing professionals who wish to establish or refine their own offerings. Rather than presenting 'how to' approaches, the book presents 'how we' accounts that enable readers to learn from the creative practices and experiences of others. By capturing a range of experiences, institutional models, and forms of social writing support, Writing Together explains the thinking behind social writing initiatives and the processes through which those initiatives have been assessed. It demonstrates that social writing practices are not just a means to an end, but an end in themselves - that writing together is a great way to write and a promising basis for graduate writing pedagogy and professional development." --
Foreword / Nigel Caplan and Talinn Phillips -- A way to writer wellbeing : dissertation writing groups at UNC Charlotte / Lisa Russell-Pinson -- Ritual and play in the University of Minnesota's dissertation writing retreat / Katie Levin -- Research writing across the career span : write. early. often. better. together. / Kristina Quynn -- The writing centre as socially oriented dissertation hub / Keith O'Regan -- A writing-focused community for multilingual graduate students / Kristina Aikens -- When writing together is better : designing for community, accountability, and wellbeing / Donetta Hines, Yvonne Hung, and Mariè Isabel -- Re-envisioning "space" to write together : an ethics of care approach to designing "show up and write" spaces / Ileana I. Diaz, Elise Vist, and Nadine Fladd -- Social writing in the dissertation success support program / Linda C. Macri -- The physical, the cognitive, the social : defining and redefining success in a social writing program for dissertators / Vicki R. Kennell -- Building community through discipline-based writing groups / Jacob Herrmann and Kyung-Hee Bae -- Writing Fridays : connecting doctoral students across continents / Emi Iwaizumi, Michaela Nuesser, and Jieun Kim -- Leveraging social media for student-centric academic writing cafés in public spaces / Catherine E. Déri -- Supporting graduate writers through a community of practice : surprise lessons from a writing across the curriculum program / W. Brock MacDonald and Andrea Williams -- It is so good to hear you say that : graduate writing groups as a moment of connection / Shelley Hawthorne Smith.
edited by Rachael Cayley, Fiona Coll, and Daniel Aureliano Newman.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Practice, pedagogy, and programming for graduate communication