This workshop will assist the team science community in better organizing collaborative document writing processes, making it easier to process work related to grant/proposal writing, research publications, and related forms of external project communication.
The collaborative writing process is essential to securing funding and presenting research findings, but in team science, this process can be time consuming and difficult, particularly when teams are geographically dispersed and working asynchronously. By providing a workshop to engage learners in the collaborative writing process, we aim to broaden understanding across the team science community about several technologies that may be beneficial, how to plan collaborative writing projects, how to decide who should control the document at various points in the process (along with how to engage writing contributors at the appropriate time), and how to know when the document is ready to move forward.
Objectives of this workshop include:
- Learners will understand elements of the collaborative writing process, including how to work through brainstorming, conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, reviewing, revising, and editing as a team.
- Learners will understand key diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in collaborative documents.
- Learners will understand key technology to assist with collaborative writing efforts.
- Learners will understand key collaborators needed at different points in the writing process, how to organize them, and when to engage them.
- Learners will engage in a discussion about how to know when a document is ready (for submission, presentation, etc.).
- Learners can opt into work toward producing a document for publication by attending this 2-part session and continuing to collaborate with the group, until the document is published (post INSciTS attendance). Alternatively, participants may attend only Part 1, and forego the writing-through-publication process, while still receiving information about collaborative document writing.