TY - GEN
T1 - Global virtual teams create and translate technical documentation
T2 - IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, ProComm 2015
AU - Cleary, Yvonne
AU - Flammia, Madelyn
AU - Minacori, Patricia
AU - Slattery, Darina M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - Since 2013, students from the University of Limerick (UL), the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Université Paris Diderot (UPD) have collaborated on a documentation and translation assignment in virtual teams. The UL and UCF students, who study technical communication, collaborate to write procedural documents. The UPD students translate the documents into French. A key feature of the project design is the need for collaboration among the document writers and translators throughout the process. This paper provides a theoretical background to the project and describes the assignment that student teams collaborate on. It then offers guidelines for faculty wishing to organize similar projects.
AB - Since 2013, students from the University of Limerick (UL), the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Université Paris Diderot (UPD) have collaborated on a documentation and translation assignment in virtual teams. The UL and UCF students, who study technical communication, collaborate to write procedural documents. The UPD students translate the documents into French. A key feature of the project design is the need for collaboration among the document writers and translators throughout the process. This paper provides a theoretical background to the project and describes the assignment that student teams collaborate on. It then offers guidelines for faculty wishing to organize similar projects.
KW - Technical communication
KW - translation
KW - virtual teams
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84957922955&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IPCC.2015.7235802
DO - 10.1109/IPCC.2015.7235802
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84957922955
T3 - IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
BT - ProComm 2015 - IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 12 July 2015 through 15 July 2015
ER -