October 5: AKEN General Meeting
This is an open meeting. Please share the information with anyone who might be interested in AKEN and/or the presentation.
Wednesday
11:30am Short business meeting
12:00 Presentation: Writing Groups
1:00pm Adjourn
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Presentation: Writing Groups
Dayna Jean DeFeo & Rebeca Maseda
UAA Center for Alaska Education Policy Research, ISER
Although peer-reviewed publications are perhaps the most important component in academic promotions and grant applications, faculty and researchers are left on their own to do this, often without resources, sufficient support, or information. This isolated aspect of workloads can become oppressive and work against the outcome: scholarly productivity. This presentation briefly reviews the literature on writing groups, focusing on benefits in and outside of academia. The presenters weave the empirical literature with their own experiences of creating and maintaining a successful writing group. The presenters make recommendations for identifying writing needs, and for establishing and maintaining a healthy and productive writing group.
