Workshop 1: 'Collaborative writing' by Professor Paul Gibbs

Collaborative writing

Paul Gibbs

Research

Editorial supply chain and journal management

structure: journals

Author

EditorPublishe

r/Managing Editor

Production

Users

Quality research papers

EAB and reviewers

Solicits new papers

Handles review process

Promotes journal to peers

Attends conferences

Develops new areas of coverage

The link between the publishing company and editor

Helps editors succeed in their role and build a first class journal

Overall responsibility for journal

Promotion and marketing

Attends conferences

Handles production issues

QA – sub-editing and proof reading

Convert to SGML for online databases

Print production

Despatch

Added value from publisher

Access via library

Hard copy

Database

Third party

Ideas now!

What journal should you submit to?

Higher Education Pedagogies

Teaching in Higher Education

Higher education Journal generally

Discipline specific

Let do it!

Form group Think of ideas or

how to generate idea

Consider journals Reflect on the

process

A social practice including:

Coordination Communication (negotiation) Cooperation External factors

What is Collaborative Writing?

Group size : Small Vs. Large Social status of members : Equal Vs. Hierarchical Time : Synchronous Vs. Asynchronous Space : Distributed or at the same place Text length Types of text Different conceptions of the task among

collaborators Individual goals Vs. Group’s

Complexity and Diversity

Issues in Collaborative

Writing

Sequential Reciprocal

Parallel

Organisation:

The efficient meeting Management of conflict

Communication issues: Effective communication, What to communicate about Communication medium

Issues in Collaborative Writing

Routing procedures the material between the members

Version control Commenting Strategies

E-mail Inserting the comments in the original

document Annotation features in your word

processor.

Issues in Collaborative Writing

"A Review of the use of Action Research in Higher Education",

Case Study

Paul Gibbs, Patricia Cartney, Kate Wilkinson, John Parkinson, Sheila Cunningham, Carl James-Reynolds, Tarek Zoubir, Venetia Brown, Phil Barter, Pauline Sumner, Angus MacDonald, Asanka Dayananda & Alexandra Pitt

Education Action Research

The Team & Journal

This literature review considers the use of action research in higher education. The review specifically looks at two areas of higher education activity. The first concerns academic teaching practice and includes a discussion of research and pedagogy practice, and staff development. The second considers student engagement. In both of these core features of higher education, action research has proven to be a central approach to the investigation, reflection and improvement of practice. Each of these main foci includes a discussion of the limitations of the literature. The review illustrates the extent and range of uses to have benefited from an action research approach.

Outcome

Interest judging meeting Establish common goal, trust and leadership

(Patricia Cartney) Set objectives Decide on writing and synthesis process Review and critique Dealing with publisher and reviewers

Process

In some ways this is an interesting read but I

have a number of reservations that temper my enthusiasm for the paper.

This is an incredibly ambitious yet potentially very useful paper exploring the application of action research in higher education (HE) through various lenses. 

This paper is interesting for the Journal audience and makes a relevant contribution, specially for its combination of lesson studies and action learning.

Second response