(First Person) 2: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy

216 Pages·2001·1.68 MB·English

by  Kami Day

(FIRST PERSON)2

(FIRST PERSON)2
A Study of Co-authoring in the Academy
KAMI DAY
MICHELE EODICE
UTAH STATE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Logan,Utah
This book is dedicated to
PATRICK M. HARTWELL
February 10,1937 – October 4,2000
Copyright © 2001 Utah State University Press
All rights reserved.
Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica.
Cover design by Tom Child,Mazyne,Inc.
Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Day,Kami,1950-
(First person)2:a study ofco-authoring in the academy / Kami Day,
Michele Eodice.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87421-448-3 (pbk.:alk.paper) — ISBN 0-87421-458-0 (e-book)
1. Academic writing.2. Authorship—Collaboration.3. Group work in
education. I.Title:(First person)two.II.Eodice,Michele,1957-
III.Title.
LB2369 .D38 2001
808’.02—dc21
2001003523
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
1 How We Came to Write This Book 1
2 Why Study Academic Co-authors? 14
3 Why Call Successful Co-authoring Feminine? 48
4 Completion ofCaring:Successful Co-authoring as Relationship 61
5 What They Do:How the Co-authors View Their
Collaborative Writing Process 121
6 Co-authored Scholarship and Academia 143
7 Learning to Care 167
Appendix 185
References 190
Index 201
About the Authors 205

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Ifwe were to name every person,living and dead,who has contributed to this
book,we would need to write at least a chapter of acknowledgments.So,we
will limit ourselves to those with whom we have developed relationships,those
who have been part ofour lives and our work.First ofall,we want to thank the
co-authors who generously volunteered their time to talk with us, and, in
many cases,to review transcripts and offer further guidance and encourage-
ment.We could not ask for better mentors and models for our professional
and personal lives, and we are happy to call many of these co-authors our
friends as a result of our communication with them.We would also like to
thank others who gave us permission to use their words—from email mes-
sages,conversations,and the 2000 Conference on College Composition and
Communication workshop on co-authoring.
Several people read the manuscript of our book,or part of it,and gave us
thoughtful input which helped shape our revisions:Rebecca Moore Howard,
Derek Owens,Frank Farmer,and of course our editor,Michael Spooner.Our
relationship with him has been truly collaborative as he demonstrated his
respect for our work with his productive and challenging feedback.
We must acknowledge Carol Lacque,a co-author ofa dissertation in 1975;
this dissertation was the precedent we hoped would make our co-authored
dissertation easier to sell to our graduate school.Speaking with her on the tele-
phone was a pleasure,and she sent us several volumes of her poetry after our
conversation.Toni Knott and Lynne Valek,who recently completed a collabo-
rative dissertation,have been soul sisters to us—thanks.
Back when we wrote our very first paper together,our friends in graduate
school were eager to see us succeed,and they continue to be some ofour very
favorite people and strongest supporters.Our colleagues at the University of
Kansas and Johnson County Community College have been welcome cheer-
leaders.And our friends and family,in places near and far,have been patient,
curious,and supportive.They will all no doubt be glad to see this work finally
published!
Before we embarked on this project,we were taught and encouraged by sev-
eral good teachers, including Mary and Larry Shanahan, Thomas J. Reigstad,
viii (First Person)2
Donald McAndrew,C.Mark Hurlbert,Lynne Alvine,and Patrick Hartwell.This
book is dedicated to Pat,who died in October 2000 and was our most influential
mentor and a dear friend.He taught us that we learn about writing,and really
about everything, from “little stories about teaching and little stories about
learning.”We think this book is full oflittle stories—ours and many others—that
contribute to the big story:we are the relationships we have.
Finally,as we write this together,we decide to thank each other for the gifts
we bring to our work and to each other’s lives.
IfI could let you know—
two women together is a work
nothing in civilization has made simple,
two people together is a work
heroic in its ordinariness,
the slow-picked,halting traverse ofa pitch
where the fiercest attention becomes routine
—look at the faces ofthose who have chosen it.
Adrienne Rich