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The
Impact of Coordination Methods on the Enhancement
of Business Writing
Edmund
Prater
University
of Texas at Arlington
Sue
Rhee
University
of Texas at Dallas
ABSTRACT
Universities
with limited resources are being pressured to cover more materials
within their degree programs. Because
of this, schools are looking to integrate materials from different
classes. This paper set out
to determine if students can learn business writing within the context
of another class, in this case, an Information Systems class. In
addition, they will have to learn the material with limited support.
The goals of this study are to investigate whether individuals
can develop their business writing skills during the course of repeated
group work and whether there are differences in the level of their
learning, based on collaboration media.
The results show that individuals can learn business writing
skills with a minimum of support through direct instruction.
In addition, there is no difference between individuals working
in face-to-face (FtF) groups and those working in groups using ECW.
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