Guiding questions

Definitions and context

What distinguishes collaborative writing from team writing, cooperative writing, co-authorship, etc.?
How important is collaboration in your field, in majors, in classes--and on what terms?
What values are associated with collaboration and with productivity, authenticity, scholarship, learning?
What frameworks, processes, models inform collaborative writing, and in what ways are they rooted in academic disciplines?
How does your work as a collaborative writer shape your teaching practices?
How do (might) your experiences as a collaborative writer influence your teaching of collaborative writing?
What is writing, anyway?

What barriers to effective collaborative writing have you experienced ?
How do you make writing projects "collaboration-worthy"?
What institutional, departmental, disciplinary factors support or impede collaborative writing?
How do collaborative writing projects benefit students? Faculty and instructors?
What opportunities can we find to engage communities in collaborative writing?

How do we collaborate under conditions of differential status/experience?
How should writers manage their projects and working together?
How do the roles of expert, novice, etc. shift throughout the collaborative writing process?
How can writers work together to achieve consensus on making meaning? On discovery, invention, voice?
What processes can we develop to support diversity and inclusion, learning life lessons, better research and scholarship?
What habits, attitudes, skills do we need to cultivate in order to collaborate with others on writing projects?
When does collaboration begin and end/when does the collaborative writing process begin and end?