ABSTRACT Supporting and contributing to the development of each other’s academic writing within a ‘writing group’ in a university setting has enhanced the authors’ professional and personal connections. As their sense of community and commitment to collaboration evolved, their group engaged in conversations about other aspects of their academic work, retreats and mentoring. These conversations have been crucial not just for the development of their writing but for the construction and ongoing formation of their individual academic identities, and development of agency. In this article, the authors use collaborative ethnography to examine their experiences. Professional conversation as a writing group has cultivated a Third Space. In this space their group has become flexible and innovative, and encouraging and affirming of their individual and collective aspirations. ‘Writing groups’ are promoted as valuable not only for writing but for developing academic identity and agency, and keeping aspirations ‘alive’ in a constantly changing academic environment.

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写作小组的承诺和关怀：教师教育者在写作小组的第三空间中谈论身份和代理

摘要在大学环境中的“写作小组”内，支持和促进彼此的学术著作发展，增强了作者的专业和个人联系。随着他们对社区的意识和对合作的承诺的发展，他们的小组开始进行有关其学术工作，务虚会和指导的其他方面的对话。这些对话不仅对于他们写作的发展而且对于他们个人学历的建立和持续形成以及代理机构的发展都至关重要。在本文中，作者使用协作人种志来检查他们的经历。作为写作小组的专业对话已经培养了第三空间。在这个领域，他们的团队变得灵活而创新，并鼓励和肯定他们的个人和集体愿望。提倡“写作小组”，不仅对写作有价值，而且对发展学术身份和代理具有重要意义，并在不断变化的学术环境中保持“活着”的愿望。