(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