| This dissertation is positioned to understand collaborative writing in greater detail. By analyzing the intricacies of the High-Level Panel Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP), this study proposes a theoretical model of intercultural collaboration at the international level.;Subsequently, I addressed several factors that contributed to the drafting of the final report of the HLP. These factors included interviews of key members of the HLP's collaborative process of document creation, the demographics of the Panel, the Panel's meeting structure, the Thematic Inputs of outside organizations, the Terms of Reference, the Framing Questions, as well as both the Monrovia and Bali Communiques. All of these provided key findings that contribute to the overall literature in various fields of academia.;Findings realized in this study show that globalization has substantially shifted the interdependence of our cultures, as well as our society's understanding of the world. Although the findings in this study are not applicable to all academic or global settings, they do present theories that help to push the ball of understanding (of intercultural collaborative writing at the international level) further down the field.;Theoretically, and based on the basic assumptions of ethnocentric principles, the idea of 'interculturally collaborated documents' should not be a realistic achievement because of the term's basic premise which contends that groups naturally dislike each other. But when you consider, as this study does, the implications of cultural studies (which details how cultural practices lead groups to struggle for cultural domination [Hoggart, 1958]), language ideology, (beliefs that represent political interests and, therefore, a motivation to influence foreign policy [Ag and Jorgensen, 2013]), rhetoric, and its ability to empower the many, global consciousness' receptiveness to foreign cultures (Robertson, 1992), and development communications (which stipulates that people come together to identify and solve problems [Asadu, 2008]), you quickly understand why the engagement of intercultural and international collaboration is necessary.;Based on the examination of the HLP in this case study, I offer six central theories of intercultural collaboration at the international level that are worth further study. They include the suggestions that: 1) There are certain characteristics that are found within the typical individual who would be selected to collaborate within an intercultural/international panel; 2) The meeting structure of international collaboration that takes into account the Community Development Model necessitates a five-step cyclical process of interaction in order to elicit true social transformation and, more importantly, acceptance; 3) The international order of shared cultures arguably supersedes the authority of an individual nation, and, therefore, takes precedence in terms of legitimacy; 4) The Terms of Reference, which can be coded as a Process of Collaboration document, ultimately, has much more of an influence on the final product or outcome of intercultural collaboration at the international level than originally thought; 5) The assimilated, or summarized, answers of framing questions that address cultural or ideological issues, when merged, creates dual identity for group members, and shared beliefs for the group as a whole; and 6) Technical communicators, and their accompanying models of operation, must make more of a concerted effort to involve their targeted audience within the decision-making and actual drafting processes of a document. |
