Writing Groups for Academic Advisors: Fulfilling Scholarship Goals and Furthering the Field of Advising

Abstract

Academic advising has emerged as a field of study within higher education. To further develop this field, advising professionals need to engage in scholarly pursuits, including research and publishing. One way of supporting advising scholarship is to create a writing group. Writing groups have long been used in higher education academia to promote writing and research. However, writing groups for academic advisors are less common. This article describes how one advisor writing group has achieved success in reaching its goals and the practices and methods that were found to be most effective in the group’s success.