Helping EAL academics navigate asymmetrical power relations in co-authorship: Research-based materials for ERPP workshops
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

This paper presents, discusses, and evaluates research-based materials for English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) teaching, based on a study conducted with exiled academics supported by CARA (Council for At-Risk Academics) and their UK-based co-authors who provided textual interventions on their texts. Using data from interviews with exiled academics and their UK-based co-authors/ mentors as well as their article drafts and textual interventions, we present teaching materials for ERPP workshops aimed at raising the participants’ awareness of issues that may arise in co-authorship involving asymmetrical power relations, such as those between exiled academics and their UK-based co-authors/mentors. The materials take the shape of data-based scenarios which ask workshop attendees to consider experiential co-authorship narratives involving (i) the issue of ‘parochi-alism’, i.e., failure to indicate the relevance of one’s research to a larger audience, (ii) issues with the type and amount of feedback regarding writer development and text production, (iii) blurred lines of co-authorship roles, and (iv) authority issues in interdisciplinary collaborative writing. Each scenario is followed by a research-informed discussion. We argue that scenario-based awareness-raising activities can sensitize all parties in asymmetrical co-authorship pairs/groups to common chal-lenges that arise in such collaborations, help them navigate collaborative writing successfully, and encourage them to reflect on their own co-authorship practices. We conclude by discussing the merits of the scenario-based approach to developing materials for ERPP teaching.

CO-AUTHORSHIP PRACTICES

ENGLISH FOR RESEARCH PUBLICATION PURPOSES (ERPP)

EAL (ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE) ACADEMIC LITERACIES DEVELOPMENT

TEACHING MATERIALS

EXILED ACADEMICS

Författare

Baraa Khuder

Chalmers, Vetenskapens kommunikation och lärande, Fackspråk och kommunikation

Bojana Petrić

Birkbeck University of London

Writing and Pedagogy

17565839 (ISSN) 17565847 (eISSN)

Vol. 14 1 1-21

Ämneskategorier

Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap

Studier av enskilda språk

Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning

DOI

10.1558/wap.20495

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