Navigating the Decisions and Ethics of Authorship: An Examination of Graduate Student Journal Article Authorship

Authorship and authorship order are visual shortcuts that communicate student success. We content analyzed to what extent graduate students published as lead authors in 10 refereed communication and media journals over a decade (2007–2016) examining student authorship, coauthorship, and affiliations. Graduate students appeared in approximately 23% of the sampled articles with graduate students most often appearing as lead author on multiauthored articles. If there is an increasing expectation to secure lead authorship, students may need to navigate the authorship process. Guidelines are provided on how to assess and negotiate authorship based on intellectual contributions, tasks, and sustained commitment.

Apprenticeship in the Renaissance University: Student authorship and craft knowledge

ArgumentStudents entered Renaissance universities as apprentices in the craft of books. In the decades around 1500, such university training began to involve not only manuscript circulation, but also the production and the use of books in the new medium of print. Through their role in the crafting of books, I show how a circle of students around Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples gained the experience needed to become bookmen. Students took classroom manuscripts and brought them into print – the new print shop offered students a place in which to exchange labor for credibility as joint authors.

Educomunicação como política pública de promoção ao trabalho autoral na escola

The Mais Educação Program is a public policy with a main objective to improve the environment of Brazilian public schools. This policy has 10 macro fields; one of them is the Educomunicação, defined as the education of communication, so as to strengthen student’s ability to express themselves. From this perspective, the general research objective was to investigate the challenges and possibilities of Educomunicação in maximizing the development of the authorial work of Elementary School students using school radio media. Specifically, the study aimed to identify the challenges of planning educational practices at school, specifically related to the processes of student authorship and co-authorship based on the principles of Educomunicação, and to point to the contributions of school radio media to student work. The research employed an exploratory and descriptive methodology, and the delineation adopted was Research Action. Conducted at a public school in southern Brazil, the study participants included 19 fourth grade students engaging in Educomunicação practices with school radio media. The study emphasizes how the Mais Educação Program and its macro field Educomunicação enhances the processes of student authorship and co-authorship and greater facilitates contextualized and socially embedded teaching and learning.