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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

Jim Henry
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781609606237|ISBN10: 160960623X|EISBN13: 9781609606244
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch006
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Henry, Jim. "Hybridizing F2F and Virtual Collaboration between a Government Agency and Service-Learning Technical Writing Students." Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices, edited by Melody Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 58-67. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch006

APA

Henry, J. (2011). Hybridizing F2F and Virtual Collaboration between a Government Agency and Service-Learning Technical Writing Students. In M. Bowdon & R. Carpenter (Eds.), Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices (pp. 58-67). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-623-7.ch006

Chicago

Henry, Jim. "Hybridizing F2F and Virtual Collaboration between a Government Agency and Service-Learning Technical Writing Students." In Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices, edited by Melody Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter, 58-67. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/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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