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Hybridizing F2F and Virtual Collaboration between a Government Agency and Service-Learning Technical Writing Students

Hybridizing F2F and Virtual Collaboration between a Government Agency and Service-Learning Technical Writing Students
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Author(s): Jim Henry (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 10
Source title: Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Melody Bowdon (University of Central Florida, USA)and Russell G. Carpenter (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch006

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Abstract

This case study reviews a hybrid face-to-face (F2F) and virtual collaboration between the State of Hawaii’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife and a team of university technical writing students to indicate specific features of the hybridity as it shaped the collaboration. In a course focused on organizational authorship, students were tasked with learning about the organization’s workplace culture to successfully represent its ethos in a report on the history of forestry in Hawai‘i. Moments and modes of collaboration are discussed chronologically as they enabled successful report writing, featuring key components: clearly stipulating terms of collaboration through service-learning, assessing fit between the course and the organization, emphasizing the need for onsite visits by students to ascertain the workplace culture, conducting swift follow-up on challenges in meshing the virtual with the face-to-face, and leveraging each mode of collaboration synergistically rather than discretely.

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