Collaborative Writing in the Context of Teaching & Learning Scholarship
We developed this resource for SoTL scholars to unpack the implicit processes of writing with colleagues.
Determining how you want to approach the writing process as a group is an often overlooked but important key to successful collaborative writing. On the next page is a summary of writing strategies to consider for your retreat writing project, ordered from least to most collaborative.
For each writing strategy, there is typically a ‘writing team lead’, or primary author, who takes on additional responsibilities (see subsequent sections for more details on roles and authorship). The size of the writing icons in the table below represent the writing effort, and thus potential authorship order.
Keep in mind that these strategies are a framework and not rigid in their implementation. You may find you combine different strategies in your collaborative writing approach.