Creating an oasis: some insights into the practice and theory of a successful academic writing group

Wardale, Dorothy; Hendrickson, Tamara L.; Jefferson, Therese; Klass, Des; Lord, Linley; Marinelli, Melissa

doi:10.1080/07294360.2015.1024621

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“…For teams pursuing publication, related discussions around important issues necessary for successful publication including timelines, commitment to the project work, authorship, and publication venue are generally best conducted early in the project. [18][19][20]…”

Section: Inexplicit Initial Assessment Of Publication Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting the Pursuit of Quality Improvement Publication: What Your Organization Can Do Now

Matulis

Manning

2022

Quality Management in Health Care

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Many health care organizations encourage frontline staff to pursue quality improvement (QI), local spread of those improvements, and publication of their work. Although much has been written about building and sustaining a culture of continuous QI, less is known about how to support success in QI rigor, credibility, spread, and publication. In this perspective article, we offer QI leaders practical suggestions to identify challenges in publishing QI and strategies to overcome these challenges. Health care organizations can assist QI teams with publication by intentionally formalizing scholarship early in their QI project work, providing accountability, and connecting the QI team to necessary resources. A carefully designed program supporting QI publication can both improve the rigor of QI work and enhance the professional development of QI professionals.

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Section: Inexplicit Initial Assessment Of Publication Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting the Pursuit of Quality Improvement Publication: What Your Organization Can Do Now

Matulis

Manning

2022

Quality Management in Health Care

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“…Success is measured by outputs, numbers of publications and the research funds that academics attract (Dwyer, Lewis, McDonald, & Burns, 2012). There is pressure on university academics to 'publish or perish ' (L'Huillier, 2012;McGrail, Rickard, & Jones, 2006;Wardale et al, 2015). For many academics, their publication record has become a routine part of academic staff performance reviews and fundamental to promotion and career advancement.…”

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“…Most of the literature about writing groups is about 'academic' writing groups. It is rare for groups to be mixed (academic/non-academic members), though multidisciplinary academic groups are encouraged for a 'cross fertilisation of ideas' (Wardale et al, 2015(Wardale et al, , p. 1307. It is beneficial to get feedback and input from participants from different backgrounds and disciplines.…”

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Challenging the productivity mantra: academic writing with spirit in place

Johnson

Roitman

Morgan³

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Higher Education Research & Development

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Academic writing groups aim to improve the quality and/or the rate of academic publications. In this article, the authors reflect on a writing group with academic and non-academic members that evolved over two years to uphold a deeper and arguably spiritual purpose. The group commenced with the aim of increasing its members' publication rates, but it developed to be a safe space for members to search for meaning as part of a fellowship of writers. This transition was based in the members' shared commitment to social justice values and individual concerns to generate meaningful research and writing experiences. The group's distinct processes, the shared values of its members and the site of the group meetings in a socially stigmatised community, all work to deepen its purpose beyond academic productivity. Though the group functions to strengthen individual and group norms that contribute to academic productivity, emergent norms and the fellowship of the writers foster a spiritual dimension in the group. This exploration of the spiritual dimension of a writing group adds to the long list of benefits of fellowship through academic writing groups.

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“…While programmes are starting to be set up to support certain kinds of writing, particularly writing for scholarly publication (e.g. Morss and Murray 2001), and people are experimenting with other kinds of support such as semi-formalised academic writing groups (Wardale et al 2015), much of the learning which academics engage in happens in an informal way, as they collaborate with other people on particular projects, learning as they go along. Studies such as Nygaard's investigation into the productivity of Norwegian academics (2017) have found that academic writing is a site of negotiation (Street 2003;Trede, Macklin, and Bridges 2012) in which collaborative learning plays an important role.…”

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The role of networked learning in academics’ writing

McCulloch

Tusting²,

Hamilton³

2017

Research in Learning Technology

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This article explores academics' writing practices, focusing on the ways in which they use digital platforms in their processes of collaborative learning. It draws on interview data from a research project that has involved working closely with academics across different disciplines and institutions to explore their writing practices, understanding academic literacies as situated social practices. The article outlines the characteristics of academics' ongoing professional learning, demonstrating the importance of collaborations on specific projects in generating learning in relation to using digital platforms and for sharing and collaborating on scholarly writing. A very wide range of digital platforms have been identified by these academics, enabling new kinds of collaboration across time and space on writing and research; but challenges around online learning are also identified, particularly the dangers of engaging in learning in public, the pressures of 'always-on'-ness and the different values systems around publishing in different forums.

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Creating an oasis: some insights into the practice and theory of a successful academic writing group

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Supporting the Pursuit of Quality Improvement Publication: What Your Organization Can Do Now

Supporting the Pursuit of Quality Improvement Publication: What Your Organization Can Do Now

Challenging the productivity mantra: academic writing with spirit in place

The role of networked learning in academics’ writing

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