Demystifying Collaborative Writing: Two Pre-Strategy Steps for Coauthors
We recommend this resource for any writers collaborating for the first time, as it provides some key questions to ask each other about your writing preferences.
Writing collaboratively with colleagues who share your research or scholarly interests can be one of the great joys of academic life. The benefits of coauthoring are tangible and subtle: we often produce higher quality manuscripts and proposals than we would if writing solo, and writing with others can be so much more fun than writing alone!
Coauthoring a document with others can also be challenging, complete with unexpected delays, content negotiations, and stylistic compromises. Depending on how well we know ourselves and our partners as writers, the process of coauthoing a highly structured, high-quality document can also be highly mystifying at times.
While we cannot demystify all collaborative writing issues here, we can share two pre-strategy steps and a couple resources for your journey.