(First person)2 : : a study of co-authoring in the academy / / Kami Day, Michele Eodice.

• Author: Day, Kami, 1950-
• TeilnehmendeR: Eodice, Michele, 1957-
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In (First Person)2, Day and Eodice offer one of the few book-length studies of co-authoring in academic fields since Lunsford and Ede published theirs over a decade ago. The central research here involves in-depth interviews with ten successful academic collaborators from a range of disciplines and settings. The interviews explore the narratives of these informants' experience-what brought them to collaborate, what cognitive and logistical processes were involved as they worked together, what is the status of collaborated work in their field, and so on-and situate these informants with

Table of Contents

How we came to write this book -- Why study academic co-authors? -- Why call successful co-authoring feminine? -- Completion of caring : successful co-authoring as relationship -- What they do : how the co-authors view their collaborative writing process -- Co-authored scholarship and academia -- Learning to care.