Global Virtual Teams Create And Translate Technical Documentation: Communication Strategies, Challenges And Recommendations

Keywords

Technical communication; translation; virtual teams

Abstract

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.

Publication Date

9-1-2015

Publication Title

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volume

2015-September

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCC.2015.7235802

Socpus ID

84957922955 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84957922955

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