Facilitating Student Co-Authored Papers in LIS Education Research: A Case Study from the LIS Classroom

Abstract

This article describes the process and tools used to facilitate a collaborative student co-authored paper that was recently published as a short communication in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. As the instructor of the course in which the paper project took place, I provide direction here for other LIS instructors on how to successfully facilitate publishable-quality student co-authored papers as an in-class activity using online collaborative teaching tools. This paper project is especially relevant to courses or projects that include social justice topics.