This book demonstrates how to develop and engage in successful academic collaborations that are both practical and sustainable across campuses and within local communities. Authored by experienced writing program administrators, this edited collection includes a wide range of information addressing collaborative partnerships and projects, theoretical explorations of collaborative praxis, and strategies for sustaining collaborative initiatives. Contributors offer case studies of writing program collaborations and honestly address both the challenges of academic collaboration and the hallmarks of successful partnerships.

Focuses on programmatic collaboration that enrich writing programs and writing centers Argues for the applicability of recent research on complex collaborative practices to the different forms of collaboration that are often enacted by writing programs and centers Reports on the benefits and challenges that arise during collaborative work involving writing programs and writing centers in primary roles

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Alice Johnston Myatt is Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, USA. Myatt develops and teaches composition classes, is Academic Coordinator for the minor in Professional Writing, and chairs the planning team for the department's annual Transitioning to College Writing Symposium.
Lynée Lewis Gaillet is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Georgia State University, USA. She is author of numerous articles and book chapters addressing Scottish rhetoric, writing program administration, composition/rhetoric pedagogy, publishing matters, and archival research methods. She is a recipient of an NEH Summer Research Award and ISHR Fellowship.

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Preface.- 1 Enacting Partnerships: Writing Programs, Writing Centers, and the Collaboration Continuum.- 2 Crafting Collaboricity: Harmonizing the Force Fields of Writing Program and Writing Center Work.- 3 Using Autoethnography to Bring Together Writing Center and Composition Practicums.- 4 The Dynamics of Collaboration and Hierarchy: Developing, Assessing, and Revising a First-Year Composition/Writing Center Partnership.- 5 Breeding Partnerships: Examining a Decade-Long Collaborative Praxis between Animal Sciences and English Departments.- 6 How STEM Can Gain Some STEAM: Crafting Meaningful Collaborations between STEM Disciplines and Inquiry-Based Writing Programs.- 7 Turning Stories from the Writing Center into Useful Knowledge: Writing Centers, WID Programs, and Partnerships for Change.- 8 Collaborative Development: Reflective Mentoring For GTAs.- 9 The Multiliteracy Center as Collaboration Tool.- 10 Meeting the World: Negotiating Meaning at the Writing Studio.- 11 Collaborating to Support International Student Writers.- 12 Illuminating Collaboration: Bringing the Writing Program to the Community.- Afterword.