Acknowledging the work of others
Topic: Recognising the influence of your colleagues
What credit do you give to the influence that your colleagues have on your work?
This topic is designed to help you improve:
- your understanding of the ways that an academic’s work is influenced in a collegial environment
- your skills in giving fair and proper acknowledgment to the influences of your colleagues
In this topic, two academics share their approaches to cognitive partnerships in their own work.
Further reading on this topic:
Cronin, B. (2004). Bowling alone together: Academic writing as distributed cognition. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(6), 557-560.*
“The collaborative nature of science and scholarship is revealed not only in the statistics of co-authorship (overt indicators), but also in the growth of “subauthorship collaboration” (covert indicators)… By examining the para-textual elements of scholarly publications (bibliographies and acknowledgments, in particular), we can develop a much finer sense of the extent to which scholars of all stripes depend on loosely-coupled assemblies of significant others .. to bring their ideas into the public gaze.”(p.560)
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