By Alice Johnston Myatt, Lynée Lewis Gaillet
This publication demonstrates tips to advance and interact in winning educational collaborations which are either useful and sustainable throughout campuses and inside of neighborhood groups. Authored via skilled writing software directors, this edited assortment encompasses a wide variety of knowledge addressing collaborative partnerships and tasks, theoretical explorations of collaborative praxis, and techniques for maintaining collaborative projects. members provide case reviews of writing application collaborations and truthfully tackle either the demanding situations of educational collaboration and the hallmarks of profitable partnerships.
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MYATT ture of complex collaborations (p. 89). Jap’s conclusion? 95). More than explaining how success in collaboration can be expressed, Jap’s work alerted practitioners to potential research and assessment of such projects, as did the research and scholarship of Thomson and Perry (2006), who advocated sustained research into—and assessment of—collaborative praxis. 98). Writing programs and writing centers are certainly communities of practice, which Wenger and Wenger-Traynor (2006) further defined as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” (“Introduction”).
In their research into three complex collaborations, Mankin et al. 1618) in a way that integrates multiple people and units into cohesive wholes. Clear, consistent, and regular communication—Complex collaborations often make use of digital technology to share digital spaces and use cloud-based storage solutions to share documents and resources, enabling participants to enjoy effective communication and receive prompt responses to each other’s questions and concerns. In addition to a shared agenda, using a shared project calendar may ensure that target dates and activities are known to all involved.
Praxis—the practical application of theory—is our goal in this collection, suggesting a wide range of possible plans for building writing partnerships. REFERENCES Austin, J. E. (2000). Strategic collaboration between nonprofits and business. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29(1), 69–97. T. (2004). Complex collaboration: Building the capabilities for working across boundaries. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. A. (2013). What do technical communicators need to know about collaboration? In J.
