Schenley Park Debate Authors Working Group
Co-Authorship Worksheet

This worksheet breaks down a single scholar’s contributions to the collaborative work product listed below. Categories and concept derived from the
Schenley Park Debate Authors Working Group Guidelines for Co-Authorship of Work Products 2.0

Name of co-author: Gordon R. Mitchell
Title of article: “Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction”

To qualify as a co-author for a Schenley Park Debate Authors Working Group article, scholars must demonstrate “substantial involvement” in each of the following areas listed below: invention; research; writing and revising.

Invention

Check at least one box
 Involvement in initial project conception
 Assistance in mapping goals and methods for project
 Intellectual contribution to drive project evolution

Qualitative description of contribution in this area
• Participant in discussion of project conception during November 2006 DAWG meeting.
• Participant in December 2006 e-mail discussion to shift focus of project from hypothetical fact pattern to straightforward commentary.

Research

Qualitative description of contribution in this area
• Original archival research conducted during December 26, 2006 travel to University of Massachusetts-Amherst archive of Karl Wallace faculty papers (appears in notes 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7).
• Secondary source online research on Neal Katyal (appears in notes 13 and 14).
• Participant in initial research agenda discussion, December 2006.

Check at least one box
 Involvement in setting the research agenda
 Retrieval of primary or secondary source material
 Synthesis of research for presentation in article

Writing and Revising

Qualitative description of contribution in this area
• Contributed first draft of text on 1954 controversy (p. 223) and Neal Katyal (p. 225)
• Suggested substantial revisions to introduction (p. 222), conclusion (p. 225-26), suggested minor revisions to other various paragraphs.
• Assisted with execution by proposing specific revision strategies via track changes function of Microsoft Word.

Check at least one box
 Contribution of substantial written text
 Contribution of suggested revisions
 Execution of substantial revisions