Re-imagining Collaboration: Peer-Review Workshops & Joint Authorship

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Re-imagining Collaboration: Peer-Review Workshops & Joint Authorship Christopher R. Friend Texts & Technology

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Starting with a view of the problematic position of collaborative writing for humanities faculty, I argue that our classes should be taught to more appropriately value collaboration as a means of writing. I address concerns of plagiarism, source uncertainty, and indefinite publication status. Suggestions include joint authorship, hypertext citations/references, and metadata tags for source data.

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Re-imagining Collaboration: Peer-Review Workshops &

Joint AuthorshipChristopher R. FriendTexts & Technology

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Problems of Collaboration

collaboration now

troubled authorship

issues of plagiarism

collaboration re-imagined

information fluency

academic habits of mind

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Definitions of “Collaboration”

collaborative learning activities

practice of cowriting and

negotiating in a writing group

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Complexity of Collaboration

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Collaboration for Faculty

Producing scholarship

Acquiring tenure

Doing research

Teaching classes

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Collaboration for Students

Unusual for writing assignments

Contrasting ideas of authorship

As author: sole ownership

As peer: idea generator

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Joint Authorship

Remixing Authorship:Reconfiguring the Author in Online Video Remix CultureNicholas Diakopoulos, Kurt Luther, Yevgeniy “Eugene” Medynskiy, Irfan Essa

Georgia Institute of Technology | School of Interactive Computing

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Plagiarism:Academic Practice

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Challenges of Digital Composition

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Composing Online

Source Uncertainty

Access to References

Indefinite Publication

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Citation as Collaboration

Works CitedColeman, Anita. "Instruments of Cognition: Use

of Citations and Web Links in Online Teaching Materials." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56.4 (2005): 382-392. Print.

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Created the paper

Provided support

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Hypertext & Research

sources (Coleman 383).

Coleman, Anita. "Instruments of Cognition: Use of Citations and Web Links in Online Teaching Materials." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56.4 (2005): 382-392. Print.

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Teach Document

Markup

Attach URLs to imported text and quotes

Highlight outside information

Track changes for individual contributions

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Originality Trends via

Markup

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Composing Online

Source Uncertainty

Access to References

Indefinite Publication

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Explicitly Teach CollaborationImage courtesy Microsoft

Joint authorship

Citation as collaboration

Hypertext for references

Source tagging

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”“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

—Helen Keller

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Thank You.

Christopher R. FriendTexts & Technology

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