On the Page and Off the Page: Adolescents’ Collaborative Writing in an After-School Spoken-Word Poetry Team

Andrea Vaughan University of Illinois Chicago ; Melina Lesus Chicago Public Schools

Abstract

Using case study methodology, this article analyzes the collaborative writing of three adolescent girls, one Latina and two Black, composing a group poem in an after-school spoken word poetry team. Drawing from literature on distributed cognition and embodiment, we found that participants utilized a system of writing techniques “on the page,” as well as a variety of embodied and social practices “off the page” in their team meetings to collaboratively compose this poem. We argue that focusing on the intersection of distributed cognition and embodiment in collaborative writing allows writing researchers to more fully attend to the collaborative sociality of all writing and allows teachers to support youth writers in recognizing and gaining collaborative writing skills for professional and creative writing contexts.

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Written Communication
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2024-07-01
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10.1177/07410883241242107
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