Exploring Student Collaborative Writing 

Wednesday, April 23, 11:30AM – 1PM

Austin Bailey and Sasha Maceira 

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Partly in an effort to offset the overuse of AI in student writing, and partly as a means of affirming writing as an act of communal invention and inquiry, this workshop explores options for assigning essays to students that ask them to write collaboratively with their peers in the context of individual classes. A broader question framing this approach is: What happens when we think of writing not as an index of skill acquisition but as a form of authentic, place-based invention? Writing as collaboration has the potential to offer students an exercise in deep ethos, that is, generating a sense of credibility through place and community, and thus exploring what rhet-comp scholar Rosanne Carlo calls the “re-wonderment” of finding and using language anew. How does the process of using language and making meaning together transition our understanding of writing away from the transactional to the transformative? Participants will come away with practical suggestions on how to approach collaborative student writing, both in first-year composition and across the English curriculum.        

Non-Teaching Adjunct (NTA) hours are paid out through NTA Appointments in AEMS. The median NTA rate is $51.32. Instructors are allowed a number of NTA hours per semester depending on their semester teaching hours. See graph below for Spring 25. ENGL 120 or ENGL 220 = 60 teaching hours per section. Any class other than ENGL 120/220 = 45 teaching hours. 

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