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10 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 681 (1991-1992)
Collaborative Authorship and the Teaching of Writing

handle is hein.journals/caelj10 and id is 691 raw text is: COLLABORATIVE AUTHORSHIP AND THE TEACHING OF WRITING ANDREA A. LUNSFORD* AND LISA EDE** The concepts of author and authorship, so radically destab- lized in contemporary literary theory-and in current discursive practice in fields as far removed as engineering and law-have also been problematized in the field of rhetoric and composition studies, where scholars have challenged the traditional exclusion of student writing from claims to real writing and author- ship, explored the ways in which authority is experienced by stu- dent writers, and increasingly sought to map various models of composing processes. Beginning with a 1983 essay called Why Write ... Together?,' we have attempted to add to this conversation by probing the concept of authorship that informs the teaching of writing in the United States. We began this research guided by the following questions: 1. What specific features distinguish the processes of collabora- tive authorship from those of single authorship? Can these features or processes be linked to any features of the result- ing products? In short, how can we best define collaborative authorship? 2. Is there a limit to how many people can write together? Are projects such as the Oxford English Dictionary, the Bible, the Short Title Catalogue, elaborate computer programs, encyclo- pedias-all often involving more than 100 authors-exam- ples of collaborative authorship? 3. In what ways, if any, does collaborative authorship affect the way we view the traditional writer-audience relationship? 4. What epistemological implications does collaborative author- ship hold for traditional notions of creativity and originality? 5. How might the ethics of collaborative authorship be ex- amined and defined? In cases of group authorship, where * Professor of English, Ohio State University. B.A., 1963, M.A., 1965, University of Florida; Ph.D., 1977, Ohio State University. ** Professor of English, Oregon State University. B.S., 1969, Ohio State University; M.A., 1970, Unviersity of Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1974, Ohio State University. I Lisa Ede & Andrea A. Lunsford, Why Write ... Together?, 1 RHETORIC REV. 150 (1983). 681

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